{"id":2363,"date":"2010-12-06T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T11:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2011-05-07T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T00:07:18","slug":"heron-vs-grebe-death-on-lake-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/heron-vs-grebe-death-on-lake-santa-fe","title":{"rendered":"Heron vs Grebe &#8211; Death on Lake Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron-killing-grebe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2365\" title=\"heron-killing-grebe\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron-killing-grebe-375x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron-killing-grebe-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron-killing-grebe-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/heron-killing-grebe.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While sitting down to breakfast we witnessed this scene of &#8220;nature, red in tooth and claw.&#8221; A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Great_Blue_Heron\/id\" target=\"_blank\">Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)<\/a> had captured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Pied-billed_Grebe\/id\" target=\"_blank\">Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)<\/a> and was strangling it to death. The smaller bird would briefly struggle and flap its wings, but the outcome seemed certain. After a few minutes the Heron flew off with its catch. Apparently this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/people.oregonstate.edu\/~riversj\/files\/2006_Rivers%20and%20Kuehn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">common hazard for small grebes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting down to breakfast we witnessed this scene of &#8220;nature, red in tooth and claw.&#8221; A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) had captured a Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) and was strangling it to death. The smaller bird would briefly struggle and flap its wings, but the outcome seemed certain. After a few minutes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/heron-vs-grebe-death-on-lake-santa-fe\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heron vs Grebe &#8211; Death on Lake Santa Fe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}