{"id":8410,"date":"2021-04-17T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:55:44","slug":"shore-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/shore-birds\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During one of our recent visits to Fort DeSoto State Park in St. Petersburg, we saw several types of shore birds. Some live in this area all year while a few are just temporary residents until returning to distant nesting grounds. The whimbrel is one of the birds that migrates here from way up north along the arctic waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge.jpg\" alt=\"Whimbrel Walking Along Water Edge\" class=\"wp-image-99425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-whimbrel-walking-along-water-edge-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Whimbrel Walking Along the Edge of the Water<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Another shore bird that travels long distances between their winter getaways and their arctic nesting homes is the Ruddy Turnstone. An interesting fact about turnstones is that there are only 2 species of turnstones in the world, and both live in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm.jpg\" alt=\"Ruddy Turnstone With Worm\" class=\"wp-image-99429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-3-ruddy-turnstone-with-worm-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ruddy Turnstone with a Small Worm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/pelicans-and-shore-birds\/\">Pelicans and Shore Birds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of our recent visits to Fort DeSoto State Park in St. Petersburg, we saw several types of shore birds. Some live in this area all year while a few are just temporary residents until returning to distant nesting grounds. The whimbrel is one of the birds that migrates here from way up north&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210322-4-sanderling-foraging-along-edge-of-water.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104565,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions\/104565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}