{"id":2065,"date":"2015-10-15T16:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorer1.com\/halfmoonbay1\/?page_id=2065"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:34:28","slug":"bird-refuges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/things-to-do\/recreational-activities\/bird-refuges\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Bird Refuges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Santa Cruz Area Bird Refuges\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.explorer1.com\/images\/page2\/bird-hmb.jpg?w=1080\" style=\"width: 100%\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6\">Santa Cruz&#039;s many wetlands and natural preserves create an inviting environment for more than 200 species of birds &#8212; creating a bird watching paradise.<\/span><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elkhornslough.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elkhorn Slough Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tBox 267, Moss Landing, CA 95039&nbsp; (831) 728-5939\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tElkhorn Slough harbors the largest tract of tidal salt marsh in California outside of San Francisco Bay. This ecological treasure at the center of the Monterey Bay coastline provides much-needed habitat for hundreds of species of plants and animals, including more than 340 species of birds.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tDocent-led tours of the Reserve are held every Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. There is also an early birding walk the first Saturday of every month at 8:30 a.m. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elkhornslough.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a> &gt;&gt;\n\t<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzbirdclub.org\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Bird Club<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\tThe Club sponsors birding walks in and around Santa Cruz County.&nbsp; For a very detailed list of the best birding locations, please review the Club&#039;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scbirdingguide.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guide to Birding in Santa Cruz County, California<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"body_category1\">\n\t\t&nbsp;\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz&#039;s many wetlands and natural preserves create an inviting environment for more than 200 species of birds &#8212; creating a bird watching paradise. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Elkhorn Slough Foundation Box 267, Moss Landing, CA 95039&nbsp; (831) 728-5939 Elkhorn Slough harbors the largest tract of tidal salt marsh in California outside of San Francisco Bay. This ecological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1773,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"local-page-attractions.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2065\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorer1.com\/santacruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}