{"id":180,"date":"2005-07-31T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/07\/31\/ruddy-duck\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T23:24:47","slug":"ruddy-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/07\/31\/ruddy-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruddy Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/programs\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Ruddy_Duck_dtl.html\">Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis)<\/a> can be found in large ponds and wetland areas around Tucson. Ruddy Ducks are small and plump with stiff, upright tails that give them a rather jaunty appearance. Male Ruddy Ducks in breeding plumage, such as this one, are cinnamon red in color with bright blue bills, white cheeks, and dark caps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/July\/ruddy-duck.jpg\" alt=\"Male Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)\" title=\"Male Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)\" width=\"480\" height=\"334\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Female Ruddy Ducks are mostly dark brown and much duller in color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruddy Ducks (Oxyura jamaicensis) can be found in large ponds and wetland areas around Tucson. Ruddy Ducks are small and plump with stiff, upright tails that give them a rather jaunty appearance. Male Ruddy Ducks in breeding plumage, such as this one, are cinnamon red in color with bright blue bills, white cheeks, and dark&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/07\/31\/ruddy-duck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}