{"id":500,"date":"2019-09-04T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=500"},"modified":"2019-09-04T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T17:01:54","slug":"mink-river-newport-state-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/mink-river-newport-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mink River-Newport State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

Extensive, undeveloped shorelines and a variety of habitats characteristic of the Lake Michigan coastal zone make this an ecologically rich and important site.\u00a0 Habitats include open waters of Lake Michigan, sand and cobblestone beach, dunes, coastal wetlands composed of sedges, cattail, and bur-reed, and swamp conifer, mesic, and boreal forests.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

Many priority wetland birds breed here including osprey, American bittern, Virginia rail, sedge wren, and the rare yellow rail.\u00a0 Forest breeders include at least 13 species of warblers and other passerines, some, like golden-crowned kinglet and Cape May warbler, at or near the southern limit of their ranges in the state.\u00a0 The terrestrial habitats at this site also provide important stopover habitat for migrating birds, and large flocks of diving ducks utilize the open waters of Lake Michigan in the winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Mink River, photo by The Nature Conservancy<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description Extensive, undeveloped shorelines and a variety of habitats characteristic of the Lake Michigan coastal zone make this an ecologically rich and important site.\u00a0 Habitats include open waters of Lake Michigan, sand and cobblestone beach, dunes, coastal wetlands composed of sedges, cattail, and bur-reed, and swamp conifer, mesic, and boreal forests. Ornithological Importance Many… [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-500","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"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=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}