{"id":626,"date":"2019-09-05T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=626"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:48:13","slug":"upper-mississippi-river-trempeleau-national-wildlife-fish-refuges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/upper-mississippi-river-trempeleau-national-wildlife-fish-refuges\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Mississippi River\/Trempeleau National Wildlife & Fish Refuges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This area encompasses the Trempeleau refuge and the Wisconsin portion of the Upper Mississippi refuge, covering eight counties in southwest Wisconsin. Habitats include large tracts of floodplain forest, forested wetlands, bluffs, braided channels, open water, riverine wetlands, and prairie.<\/p>\n

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Upper Mississippi River, photo by USFWS<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Upper Mississippi River Refuge, photo by USFWS<\/p><\/div>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

The Mississippi River is one of the great continental flyways along which birds migrate in spring and fall. Hundreds of thousands of waterfowl, songbirds, and raptors use the refuges as stopovers and migratory corridors, including half of the world\u2019s canvasbacks and twenty percent of the world\u2019s tundra swans. The forests, wetlands, and grasslands provide critical breeding habitat for many species, including bitterns, herons, bald eagle, red-shouldered hawk, yellow-billed cuckoo, Acadian flycatcher, prothonotary warbler, cerulean warbler, Louisiana waterthrush, lark sparrow, and eastern meadowlark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This area encompasses the Trempeleau refuge and the Wisconsin portion of the Upper Mississippi refuge, covering eight counties in southwest Wisconsin. Habitats include large tracts of floodplain forest, forested wetlands, bluffs, braided channels, open water, riverine wetlands, and prairie. Ornithological Importance The Mississippi River is one of the great continental flyways along which… [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-626","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"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=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}