{"id":58,"date":"2012-01-18T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-01-18T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:15:50","slug":"another-arctic-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Another Arctic Predator\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HLY_1168-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-59\" title=\"HLY_1168-1-2\" src=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HLY_1168-1-2-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HLY_1168-1-2-300x181.jpg 300w, http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/HLY_1168-1-2-1024x619.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Bubo scandiacus (Photo Credit: Luke DeCicco, USFWS)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Polar bears are the quintessential Arctic predator, but there is another equally well-adapted creature to this cold icy environment, the Snowy Owl.\u00a0 While we were sampling at the mouth of Amundsen Gulf, in the distance a large bird was flying towards the ship.\u00a0 As the bird approached the ship, it became clear that it as a Snowy Owl soaring majestically around the ship.\u00a0 Next thing we knew there was more than one and we had at least four owls flying around the ship!\u00a0 It was incredible\u2026a flock of Snowy Owls just coming by to check us out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/owl-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"owl-1\" src=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/owl-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/owl-1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/owl-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A snowy owl taking a rest on the ship<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bubo scandiacus (Photo Credit: Luke DeCicco, USFWS) Polar bears are the quintessential Arctic predator, but there is another equally well-adapted creature to this cold icy environment, the Snowy Owl.\u00a0 While we were sampling at the mouth of Amundsen Gulf, in the distance a large bird was flying towards the ship.\u00a0 As the bird approached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic-expedition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}