{"id":939,"date":"2015-01-04T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:04:15","slug":"harlequin-duck-in-iowa-december-31-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin Duck in Iowa &#8211; December 31, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">In November I saw hundreds of colorful breeding plumaged Harlequin Ducks in Adak, in the Aleutian Islands, but never before have I seen a Harlequin Duck in any plumage in Iowa.&nbsp; This plain jane \u201cHarley\u201d showed up in Des Moines below the Center Street Dam in late December and continues to inhabit our local waters.&nbsp; I wonder where she will go from here?&nbsp; Birds found so far out of their normal territory are always of concern for their ability to find their way home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2015-jan-june\/harlequin-duck-1.jpg\" alt=\"harlequin-duck-1\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">The size difference is noticeable between the Harlequin Duck and the Canada Goose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2015-jan-june\/harlequin-duck-2.jpg\" alt=\"harlequin-duck-2\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November I saw hundreds of colorful breeding plumaged Harlequin Ducks in Adak, in the Aleutian Islands, but never before have I seen a Harlequin Duck in any plumage in Iowa.&nbsp; This plain jane \u201cHarley\u201d showed up in Des Moines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/?p=939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowabirding","category-northamericanbirding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emptynestbirder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}