{"id":9830,"date":"2012-05-09T07:11:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2012-05-07T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T00:55:33","slug":"horicon-marsh-bird-festival-may-11-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/9830","title":{"rendered":"Horicon Marsh Bird Festival, May 11-12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something to do this weekend? Do you like the outdoors? Hiking? Birding? Well, go to the Horicon Marsh Bird Festival!<\/p>\n<p>The Horicon Marsh is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States, a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramsar.org\/cda\/en\/ramsar-documents-list\/main\/ramsar\/1-31-218_4000_0__\" title=\"Ramsar Convention - The Ramsar List of of Wetlands of International Importance\" target=\"_blank\">Wetland of International Importance<\/a>,&#8221; and an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcbirds.org\/abcprograms\/domestic\/iba\/index.html\" title=\"Important Bird Area info from American Bird Conservancy\" target=\"_blank\">Important Bird Area<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Every year the Horicon hosts a <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.wi.gov\/org\/land\/wildlife\/wildlife_areas\/horicon\/docs\/newsletter.pdf\" title=\"Horicon Marsh Bird Festival 2012\" target=\"_blank\">Bird Festival<\/a> in May. This is the 15th year, and a full list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horiconmarshbirdclub.com\/birdfestivalevents.cfm\" title=\"Bird Festival 2012 events\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a> is available from the Horicon Marsh Bird Club&#8217;s web site. Check the event listing to see if any opportunities are full already (the bus trips fill up)!<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the marsh from the websites of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.wi.gov\/org\/land\/wildlife\/wildlife_areas\/horicon\/\" title=\"Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area - WI DNR\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuges\/profiles\/index.cfm?id=32520\" title=\"Horicon National Wildlife Refuge - U.S. FWS\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with many federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something to do this weekend? Do you like the outdoors? Hiking? Birding? Well, go to the Horicon Marsh Bird Festival! The Horicon Marsh is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States, a &#8220;Wetland of International Importance,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/9830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2768,35],"tags":[33725,2737,1726,109,220,33721,33722,33723,33726,33727,33724,3234],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-wisconsin","category-infogov","tag-bird-festival","tag-birding","tag-birds","tag-events","tag-fun-stuff","tag-giba","tag-iba","tag-important-bird-area","tag-marsh","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-wetland-of-international-importance","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9832,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}