{"id":2518,"date":"2026-01-31T17:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:53:57","slug":"pelican-on-a-desert-island-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/aves\/pelican-on-a-desert-island-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelican on a Desert Island in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this relatively small desert island off the coast of Baja California Sur, there is little to worry about from predators. A variety of ocean-going birds nest here as a result, right in the open on the ground in large numbers. This leaves every rock in the area covered in endless strata of bird poop and all colors of bacteria and algae. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pelecanus-occidentalis_O4A1274-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pelecanus-occidentalis_O4A1274-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pelecanus-occidentalis_O4A1274-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pelecanus-occidentalis_O4A1274-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pelecanus-occidentalis_O4A1274-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pelecanus-occidentalis_O4A1274-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this relatively small desert island off the coast of Baja California Sur, there is little to worry about from predators. A variety of ocean-going birds nest here as a result, right in the open on the ground in large numbers. This leaves every rock in the area covered in endless strata of bird poop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[171,368,679],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aves","tag-mexico","tag-baja","tag-bird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}