{"id":489,"date":"2006-04-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/04\/13\/common-moorhen\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T22:13:19","slug":"common-moorhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/04\/13\/common-moorhen\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Moorhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Common_Moorhen_dtl.html\">Common Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus)<\/a> in the few wetland areas around Tucson. They are not very common here, and the ones that I do see tend to like to hide in the reeds and cattails. I recently observed this Common Moorhen at the <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/08\/23\/the-sweetwater-wetlands\/\">Sweetwater Wetlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/April\/Common-Moorhen-1.jpg\" alt=\"Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)\" title=\"Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Common Moorhens are similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/01\/american-coot\/\">American Coots (Fulica americana)<\/a>, but they have a yellow-tipped red bill, a white stripe on their sides, and white on the tail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/April\/Common-Moorhen-2.jpg\" alt=\"Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)\" title=\"Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I could get any closer photos of it, this Common Moorhen paddled through the floating mat of green algae back into the dense cattails and disappeared from sight.<\/p>\n<p>While it definitely didn&#8217;t like me, the Common Moorhen didn&#8217;t seem to mind the thick algae and actually appeared to be eating stringy mouthfuls of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often see Common Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) in the few wetland areas around Tucson. They are not very common here, and the ones that I do see tend to like to hide in the reeds and cattails. I recently observed this Common Moorhen at the Sweetwater Wetlands. Common Moorhens are similar to American Coots&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/04\/13\/common-moorhen\/\" 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-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}