{"id":9906,"date":"2011-10-10T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2011-10-10T23:22:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:22:54","slug":"pelagic-family-on-the-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9906","title":{"rendered":"Pelagic Family, On the Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We passed this Pelagic Cormorant family (<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Pelagic_Cormorant\/id\">Phalacrocorax pelagicus<\/a><\/i>) on one of the few isolated nesting spots near Vancouver Island (British Columbia). We were told that in the 1990s, rampant shoreline development eliminated important habitat for the cormorants. This rock island was one of a few ecological reserves the B.C. government set aside for the cormorants&#8217; breeding and nesting needs. They share the rock with Double-crested Cormorants &#8212; and, of course, gulls who can be significant predators of cormorant eggs and young chicks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9907\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pelagic-Cormorants-860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Pelagic-Cormorants-860.jpg\" alt=\"Pelagic Cormorants (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) with Young\" title=\"Pelagic Cormorants\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9907\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelagic Cormorants with Young - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9911\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant-colony.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant-colony.jpg\" alt=\"Double Crested Cormorant Colony\" title=\"cormorant colony\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9911\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-Crested Cormorant Crowd - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9915\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant-rock-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cormorant-rock-2.jpg\" alt=\"Double-crested Cormorants Roosting\" title=\"Cormorant Rock\" width=\"750\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9915\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-Crested Cormorants (and one Oystercatcher) at Rest - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We passed this Pelagic Cormorant family (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) on one of the few isolated nesting spots near Vancouver Island (British Columbia). We were told that in the 1990s, rampant shoreline development eliminated important habitat for the cormorants. This rock island was one of a few ecological reserves the B.C. government set aside for the cormorants&#8217; breeding and nesting needs. They share the rock with Double-crested Cormorants &#8212; and, of course, gulls who can be significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9906\"> [&#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":[1],"tags":[305,331],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby-animals","tag-cormorants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","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=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}