{"id":643,"date":"2019-09-05T20:29:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=643"},"modified":"2019-09-05T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:29:25","slug":"white-river-marsh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/white-river-marsh\/","title":{"rendered":"White River Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

The White River Marsh IBA includes White River Marsh State Wildlife Area and Puchyan Prairie and Snake Creek Fen State Natural Areas.\u00a0 The site presents a complex of high-quality natural communities including the most extensive sedge meadows in southern Wisconsin as well as wet prairie, open bog, and flowages.\u00a0 Prairie pasture, planted grasslands, some croplands, oak barrens, savanna, and woodland are found in the uplands.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

The extensive wetlands are this site\u2019s most significant feature, hosting rare species like Le Conte\u2019s sparrow and yellow rail (at its southernmost location in Wisconsin), as well as American bittern, Northern harrier, sedge wren, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, swamp sparrow, and bobolink.\u00a0 Savanna and woodland habitats provide for red-headed woodpecker, field sparrow, Acadian flycatcher, wood thrush, and cerulean warbler.\u00a0 The site also is a significant concentration area for migrating waterfowl and waterbirds in both spring and fall, and is used by thousands of staging sandhill cranes in the fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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White River Marsh, photo by Jim Holzwart<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description The White River Marsh IBA includes White River Marsh State Wildlife Area and Puchyan Prairie and Snake Creek Fen State Natural Areas.\u00a0 The site presents a complex of high-quality natural communities including the most extensive sedge meadows in southern Wisconsin as well as wet prairie, open bog, and flowages.\u00a0 Prairie pasture, planted grasslands,… [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-643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions\/645"}],"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=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}