{"id":8530,"date":"2010-12-31T02:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T10:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2010-12-31T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T10:13:52","slug":"pelecanus-occidentalis-californicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=8530","title":{"rendered":"Pelecanus Occidentalis Californicus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>There&#8217;s a federal band (steel) on the right leg of the Brown Pelican in the first shot, but I didn&#8217;t see it until I off-loaded my photos. Zooming in, I can&#8217;t read any numbers from the shots I took. The blue bands are easier to spot, and were created precisely for that reason: to make it easier for people to see the band numbers and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibrrc.org\/pelican_project.html\">report banded pelicans<\/a>. Pelicans are banded at IBRRC (International Bird Rescue Research Center). When the band numbers are reported, birds be tracked, and their survivability can be monitored, after their release from rehabilitation. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibrrc.org\/report_banded_pelican_info.html\">reported<\/a> blue-banded pelicans in the past. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibrrc.org\/\">IBRRC<\/a> (International Bird Rescue Research Center) has more information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibrrc.org\/pelican_project.html\">pelican project<\/a> and what it entails.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Photos shot in Redondo Harbor, Southern California.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pelican-on-rock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pelican-on-rock.jpg\" alt=\"Banded Brown Pelican in California\" title=\"pelican on rock\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pelecanus-occidentalis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/pelecanus-occidentalis.jpg\" alt=\"Pelecanus occidentalis californicus\" title=\"pelecanus occidentalis\" width=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/5304345760\/\" title=\"Pelican Sunset by ingridtaylar, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5084\/5304345760_c587b28119_b.jpg\" width=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter alt=\"Brown Pelican in Redondo Beach\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a federal band (steel) on the right leg of the Brown Pelican in the first shot, but I didn&#8217;t see it until I off-loaded my photos. Zooming in, I can&#8217;t read any numbers from the shots I took. The blue bands are easier to spot, and were created precisely for that reason: to make it easier for people to see the band numbers and then report banded pelicans. Pelicans are banded at IBRRC (International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=8530\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}