{"id":3475,"date":"2017-07-20T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2017-04-10T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:40:56","slug":"preening-heron-ardeidae-ardea-herodias-great-blue-heron-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2017\/07\/20\/preening-heron-ardeidae-ardea-herodias-great-blue-heron-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Preening | FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/about-david-allio\/about-david-allio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/photography\/2017\/great-blue-heron-2017fl916881.jpg\" title=\"Preening Heron Ardeidae Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida\" alt=\"Preening Heron Ardeidae Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Great Blue Heron<\/em> <small>&#8211; St Marks National Wildlife Refuge<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The aging plumes of a <em>Preening<\/em> Great Blue Heron <em>Ardea herodias<\/em> give the bird a shaggy appearance.  &#34;Great Blue Herons have specialized feathers on their chest that continually grow and fray. The herons comb this &#8216;powder down&#8217; with a fringed claw on their middle toes, using the down like a washcloth to remove fish slime and other oils from their feathers as they preen. Applying the powder to their underparts protects their feathers against the slime and oils of swamps.&#34;<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small><sup>1<\/sup> <em>Great Blue Heron.<\/em> Identification, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\" target=\"_blank\">All About Birds<\/a> &#8211; Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.<\/small><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small>camera: <b>Nikon D3<\/b> | lens: <b>AF Nikkor VR 400mm f\/2.8G IF-ED<\/b><br \/>focal length: 400mm | exposure: f\/5 &#8211; 1\/2500th second &#8211; ISO 500<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preening Heron Ardeidae Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida photography by David Allio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[989,233,433,990,1049],"tags":[772,909,940,386],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ardea-herodias","category-ornithology-bird","category-fl-florida","category-great-blue-heron","category-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-bird-photography","tag-photography-exposure-data","tag-fl-florida","tag-nikon-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-U3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}