{"id":478,"date":"2019-09-02T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=478"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:18:11","slug":"lunch-creek-sedge-meadow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/lunch-creek-sedge-meadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Creek Sedge Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This IBA encompasses Lunch Creek Wetlands State Natural Area as well as portions of White River and Mecan River State Fishery Areas.\u00a0 It contains one of the richest and best-quality wetland complexes in southern Wisconsin, with large areas of sedge meadow, wet prairie, and fen present.\u00a0 The wetlands show a rare \u201cpatterning\u201d, a wetland phenomenon resulting from dramatic differences in plant composition between high and low areas, and known from only two other natural areas in the state.\u00a0 The uplands at this IBA consist of planted grasslands, oak savanna, and oak forest.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This site provides for a number of priority wetland and grassland breeders including Northern harrier, sedge wren, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, and swamp sparrow, with smaller numbers of field sparrow, vesper sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, and Eastern meadowlark.\u00a0 Savannas and woodlands host red-headed woodpecker, whip-poor-will, willow flycatcher, and brown thrasher.\u00a0 Thousands of sandhill cranes use this area for staging in the fall, and short-eared owls are present in winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Lunch Creek Sedge Meadow, photo by Christina Isenring<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This IBA encompasses Lunch Creek Wetlands State Natural Area as well as portions of White River and Mecan River State Fishery Areas.\u00a0 It contains one of the richest and best-quality wetland complexes in southern Wisconsin, with large areas of sedge meadow, wet prairie, and fen present.\u00a0 The wetlands show a rare \u201cpatterning\u201d, a… [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-478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"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=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}