{"id":792,"date":"2014-04-25T01:57:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=792"},"modified":"2014-07-06T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T01:16:36","slug":"mallards-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/04\/25\/mallards-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallards in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture of a pair of mallards yesterday afternoon.<!--more-->I could not get closer to get a picture worth showing at a higher resolution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_791\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mallards3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mallards3.jpg\" alt=\"A pair of mallards.\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-791\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mallards3.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mallards3-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pair of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in Toronto.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are the same species as the <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/02\/wild-ducks\/\" title=\"Wild Ducks\">wild ducks<\/a> in an earlier post, but the coloration seems to be more intense. Both the male and the fame have much darker colors. The fine pattern on the female&#8217;s plumage is more pronounced. Perhaps it is the difference between the North American vs. European population or they just look different in different seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a better picture taken in the summer (06\/July\/2014) at a different location.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1008\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mallards-Milliken_Park.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1008\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mallards-Milliken_Park.jpg\" alt=\"Mallard ducks.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1008\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mallards-Milliken_Park.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mallards-Milliken_Park-300x166.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Mallards-Milliken_Park-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallard ducks in <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/milliken-park\/\" title=\"Milliken Park\">Milliken Park<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture of a pair of mallards yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,37,32,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}