{"id":333,"date":"2019-08-17T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=333"},"modified":"2019-08-18T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:58:10","slug":"big-muskego-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/big-muskego-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Muskego Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-333\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-333-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-333-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-333-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3>Site Description<\/h3>\n<p>This site encompasses Big Muskego Lake, a large, shallow, muck-bottomed lake located in the City of Muskego, only a few miles from downtown Milwaukee.\u00a0 The lake contains islands of emergent vegetation and is fringed with cattail-dominated wetlands; sedge meadow and shrub wetlands also are found around the edges.\u00a0 The surrounding uplands have areas of woodland, agriculture, and residential development.<\/p>\n<h3>Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n<p>Its proximity to the state\u2019s largest urban center notwithstanding, this IBA contains significant habitats for wetland birds.\u00a0 It hosts breeding populations of both Forster\u2019s and black terns as well as marsh wrens, yellow-headed blackbirds, bitterns, rails, and waterfowl.\u00a0 Big Muskego Lake was one of the first places in southeast Wisconsin to which nesting ospreys and bald eagles returned.\u00a0 Great egrets, American white pelicans, and Caspian terns use the lake for foraging, and it also gets significant use as a stopover site by migrating waterfowl and shorebirds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-333-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-333-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div id=\"attachment_334\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Big-Muskego-Lake.jpg\" alt=\"Big Muskego Lake, photo by Brian Glenzinski\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Big-Muskego-Lake.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Big-Muskego-Lake-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Muskego Lake, photo by Brian Glenzinski<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site Description This site encompasses Big Muskego Lake, a large, shallow, muck-bottomed lake located in the City of Muskego, only a few miles from downtown Milwaukee.\u00a0 The lake contains islands of emergent vegetation and is fringed with cattail-dominated wetlands; sedge meadow and shrub wetlands also are found around the edges.\u00a0 The surrounding uplands have areas&#8230; <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/big-muskego-lake\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}