{"id":608,"date":"2012-10-26T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2012-10-26T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:48:14","slug":"eurasian-wigeon-darlington-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Eurasian Wigeon – Darlington Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Female Eurasian Wigeon at Darlington Park 10-26-12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After work today I went to Darlington Park in Bergen County NJ looking for a female Eurasian Wigeon that had been reported on eBird. Reports said that the bird was among 15 American Wigeon. I was happy to see that the birds were still present. It took me a little while to figure out which one was the Eurasian Wigeon, but once I did it was pretty obvious. I wonder if I had happened upon this group of birds without any prior knowledge if I would have picked out the Eurasian Wigeon among the American Wigeons? I’m not so sure I would have, or if I did I probably would not have had a clue what it was.\u00a0 Here are some photos from the day –\u00a0 I was disappointed because it was yet another very gray day that I was out birding in…<\/p>\n

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The female Eurasian Wigeon and this male American Wigeon were inseparable. They followed each other all around the lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Female Eurasian Wigeon and Female American Wigeon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All of these birds seemed to have some vegetation hanging off their bills at one time or another.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A couple pairs of American Wigeons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was also a couple of Pied-billed Grebes present. One was larger and light colored while the other was darker and smaller – noticeably shorter at all times.\u00a0 I really enjoy these birds, I had fun just watching them interact with one another.<\/p>\n

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After work today I went to Darlington Park in Bergen County NJ looking for a female Eurasian Wigeon that had been reported on eBird. Reports said that the bird was among 15 American Wigeon. I was happy to see that the birds were still present. It took me a little while to figure out which … Continue reading “Eurasian Wigeon – Darlington Park”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bergencounty","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-9O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}