{"id":532,"date":"2006-02-17T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/17\/bluegill\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T18:13:54","slug":"bluegill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/17\/bluegill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluegill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tame ducks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pima.gov\/nrpr\/places\/agua_pk\/index.htm\">Agua Caliente Park<\/a> here in Tucson will fiercely compete for any tossed bread scraps, but they don&#8217;t just face competition for food from the other ducks. The warm, murky waters at Agua Caliente are filled with a variety of fish, mostly large, aggressive, <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/06\/agua-caliente-cichlids\/\">non-native cichlids<\/a> and these Bluegill (<em>Lepomis macrochirus<\/em>). These hungry fish will rise up from the depths to greedily gulp up some of the duck food before the squabbling ducks can reach it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/February\/feeding-fish.jpg\" alt=\"Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) fish in the pond at Agua Caliente Park in Tucson\" width=\"350\" height=\"448\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bluegills are a popular game fish that can be recognized by their round, disk-like shape and the round, dark extensions on their gill flaps. These fish travel in schools, and besides scavenged bread scraps, they will also eat invertebrates and small fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tame ducks at Agua Caliente Park here in Tucson will fiercely compete for any tossed bread scraps, but they don&#8217;t just face competition for food from the other ducks. The warm, murky waters at Agua Caliente are filled with a variety of fish, mostly large, aggressive, non-native cichlids and these Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus). These&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/17\/bluegill\/\" 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}