{"id":2997,"date":"2016-07-18T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2018-02-21T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T22:59:31","slug":"separating-the-yellowlegs-lesser-at-left-greater-at-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"Separating the yellowlegs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in from an excellent study of an adult Lesser and an adult Greater at the Richmond Sewage Lagoons southwest of Ottawa.<!--more--> With LESSER YELLOWLEGS, note the thin all-dark bill, light eyebrow, faint dark cap to the top of the head and relatively &#8216;clean&#8217; underside with faint, light barring to flanks. With GREATER YELLOWLEGS, note the pale-based bill which is thicker and proportionately longer than that of a Lesser&#8217;s, more prominent streaking to the head and neck, more conspicuous orbital (eye) ring and an underside which is more heavily-marked, esp. the barring to the flanks. 18 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0557-1280x466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2998 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0557-1280x466-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0557 (1280x466)\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0557-1280x466-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0557-1280x466-768x280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0557-1280x466-1024x373.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0557-1280x466.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in from an excellent study of an adult Lesser and an adult Greater at the Richmond Sewage Lagoons southwest of Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}