{"id":455,"date":"2019-09-02T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=455"},"modified":"2019-09-05T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:17:38","slug":"lower-chequamegon-bay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/lower-chequamegon-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Chequamegon Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-455\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-455-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-455-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-455-0-0-0\" 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 much of the lower portion of Chequamegon Bay and includes Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge and the South Shore State Fish and Wildlife Area.\u00a0 Habitats present include Lake Superior coastal wetlands, sedge meadow, hardwood swamp, black spruce swamp, springs and creeks, sand beach and sandbar, sandstone cliffs, and open water.<\/p>\n<h3>Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n<p>This site hosts the oldest and arguably most important of Wisconsin\u2019s four active common tern colonies, with over 100 breeding pairs.\u00a0 The bay area also is an important migratory staging and stopover area for shorebirds, waterfowl, and waterbirds, including tundra swans, greater and lesser scaup, scoters, common loons, horned grebes, and various gulls.\u00a0 Thousands of raptors migrate through this area in the spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-455-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-455-0-1-0\" 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_456\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lower-chequamegon-brady.jpg\" alt=\"Lower Chequamegon Bay, photo by Ryan Brady\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lower-chequamegon-brady.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lower-chequamegon-brady-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower Chequamegon Bay, photo by Ryan Brady<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site Description This site encompasses much of the lower portion of Chequamegon Bay and includes Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge and the South Shore State Fish and Wildlife Area.\u00a0 Habitats present include Lake Superior coastal wetlands, sedge meadow, hardwood swamp, black spruce swamp, springs and creeks, sand beach and sandbar, sandstone cliffs, and open water&#8230;. <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/lower-chequamegon-bay\/\">[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-455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions\/597"}],"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=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}