{"id":364,"date":"2019-08-17T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2019-08-18T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T15:01:07","slug":"comstock-germania-bog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/comstock-germania-bog\/","title":{"rendered":"Comstock-Germania Bog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-364\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-364-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-364-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-364-0-0-0\" 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 includes both Germania Marsh State Wildlife Area and Comstock Bog State Natural Area.\u00a0 It consists of a complex mosaic of sedge meadow, wet prairie, and open bog surrounded by oak barrens and oak forest.\u00a0 The sedge meadows are of high quality and are some of the most extensive in southern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<h3>Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n<p>Priority sedge meadow breeders here include American bittern, Northern harrier, sedge wren, Le Conte\u2019s sparrow, and one of the southernmost populations of yellow rail known in the state.\u00a0 Priority shrub and savanna species also breeding here include black-billed cuckoo, willow flycatcher, brown thrasher, and blue-winged warbler.\u00a0 Thousands of sandhill cranes use the site for staging in the fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-364-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-364-0-1-0\" 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_365\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/comstock-germania-bog-Epstein.jpg\" alt=\"Comstock-Germania Bog, photo by Eric Epstein\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/comstock-germania-bog-Epstein.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/comstock-germania-bog-Epstein-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comstock-Germania Bog, photo by Eric Epstein<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site Description This site includes both Germania Marsh State Wildlife Area and Comstock Bog State Natural Area.\u00a0 It consists of a complex mosaic of sedge meadow, wet prairie, and open bog surrounded by oak barrens and oak forest.\u00a0 The sedge meadows are of high quality and are some of the most extensive in southern Wisconsin&#8230;. <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/comstock-germania-bog\/\">[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-364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/366"}],"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=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}