{"id":2130,"date":"2015-06-11T06:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T06:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2015-06-11T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T06:46:12","slug":"teal-on-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Teal on the menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like other peregrines, the Wakefield peregrines occasionally catch duck and their favourite species is teal. This skull is from a teal taken last winter. The base of the skull is missing because\u00a0it was badly\u00a0fractured.\u00a0Peregrines often kill their prey by biting the back of the head.\u00a0Along the edge of the bill, you can see the pectin &#8211; the comb-like structure that the teal uses for filtering its food from mud and water. A close-up shows how interesting the design of the pectin is.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2131\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2131\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2131\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2131\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2131\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PECTEN01.jpg\" alt=\"Teal pecttin detail\" width=\"600\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PECTEN01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PECTEN01-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PECTEN01-322x300.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teal pecttin detail<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2132\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2132\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2132\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2132\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2132\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-2.jpg\" alt=\"Teal Beak\" width=\"600\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-2-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-2-500x181.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teal Beak<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2133\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2133\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2133\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2133\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-skull-1.jpg\" alt=\"Teal skull \" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-skull-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-skull-1-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-skull-1-500x244.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teal skull<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2134\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2134\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2134\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2134\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2134\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-1.jpg\" alt=\"Teal Beak\" width=\"600\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-1-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teal-beak-1-500x238.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teal Beak<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like other peregrines, the Wakefield peregrines occasionally catch duck and their favourite species is teal. This skull is from a teal taken last winter. The base of the skull is missing because\u00a0it was badly\u00a0fractured.\u00a0Peregrines often kill their prey by biting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[191,193,192],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}