{"id":103681,"date":"2016-07-05T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=103681"},"modified":"2016-07-05T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:36:35","slug":"near-record-pelican-numbers-chase-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=103681","title":{"rendered":"Near record pelican numbers, Chase Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-100392\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pelicans-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"pelicans\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says American white pelicans are nesting at a central North Dakota refuge in near-record numbers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge Manager Neil Shook says an aerial count shows 33,694 breeding adults. That\u2019s up from about 27,000 birds last year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The white pelican colony at the refuge north of Medina peaked at 35,466 birds in 2000. The pelicans winter mainly in the Gulf Coast states but some fly to North Dakota from as far away as California to nest on the island.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pelicans normally stay in North Dakota through September, raising their young and feasting at small prairie ponds within a 100-mile radius of the refuge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says American white pelicans are nesting at a central North Dakota refuge in near-record numbers. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge Manager Neil Shook says an aerial count shows 33,694 breeding adults. That\u2019s up from about 27,000 birds last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103682,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103681\/revisions\/103682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}