{"id":55,"date":"2016-05-14T14:39:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2016-05-14T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:26:53","slug":"buttertubs-marsh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/buttertubs-marsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttertubs Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Island University (VIU) has operated a bird monitoring and banding project at Buttertubs West Marsh since 2013, in partnership with the City of Nanaimo and Ducks Unlimited Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/files\/2016\/05\/Btubs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/files\/2016\/05\/Btubs.jpg\" alt=\"Btubs\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/files\/2016\/05\/Btubs.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/files\/2016\/05\/Btubs-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/files\/2016\/05\/Btubs-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/files\/2016\/05\/Btubs-1024x718.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The property 27-hectare Buttertubs West Marsh property, located west of the Buttertubs Marsh Conservation Area and east of the Nanaimo Parkway, encompasses a mixture of ecosystem types, including marsh and shallow water, riparian areas, upland forest and old-field habitats.\u00a0 Altogether, the Buttertubs West Marsh and adjacent Buttertubs Marsh represent approximately 53 hectares of productive parkland habitat with significant ecological value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Island University (VIU) has operated a bird monitoring and banding project at Buttertubs West Marsh since 2013, in partnership with the City of Nanaimo and Ducks Unlimited Canada. The property 27-hectare Buttertubs West Marsh property, located west of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/buttertubs-marsh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/viubirdbanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}