{"id":309,"date":"2011-11-29T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/?p=309"},"modified":"2011-11-29T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T20:28:48","slug":"brewers-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/2011\/11\/29\/brewers-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewer&#8217;s Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I went birding at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson. While scanning through a bunch of ducks in search of a female Eurasian Wigeon, I found an interesting hybrid duck hanging out with some Gadwall. It was a combination I&#8217;d seen once before in south Texas. Known as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviculture-europe.nl\/nummers\/09E01A11.pdf\">Brewer&#8217;s Duck<\/a>, this is a hybrid between Mallard and Gadwall. <a href=\"http:\/\/web4.audubon.org\/bird\/BoA\/F39_G4c.html\">Audubon illustrated it<\/a>\u00a0in fact, and described it as <em>Anas breweri<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brewer&#039;s Duck-2\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck-2.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brewer&#039;s Duck\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Brewers-Duck-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I went birding at Sweetwater Wetlands in Tucson. While scanning through a bunch of ducks in search of a female Eurasian Wigeon, I found an interesting hybrid duck hanging out with some Gadwall. It was a combination I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/2011\/11\/29\/brewers-duck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisbenesh.com\/currents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}