{"id":216611,"date":"2025-10-16T01:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216611\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:32:10","slug":"legends-of-the-falls-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216611\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of the Falls | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Gerrits&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Gerrits (Finland) finds a gap in the misty curtain near the falls of Sk\u00f3gafoss to reveal nesting northern fulmars.<\/p>\n<p>There was a strong, blustery wind on the day Stefan visited Sk\u00f3gafoss. This created a constant veil of spray that hid the birds from view and coated his camera lens with fine water droplets.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, enough gaps appeared in the mist to enable him to photograph this scene.<\/p>\n<p>The northern fulmars at Sk\u00f3gafoss fly across the 60-metre-high (197-foot) waterfall to nest in the nearby cliffs.<\/p>\n<p>Fulmars are widespread across northern latitudes. In Europe, populations have been declining since the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefan Gerrits&#8217;s Image Stefan Gerrits (Finland) finds a gap in the misty curtain near the falls of Sk\u00f3gafoss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,34930,128,338,131366,131365,72090,131364,131363],"class_list":["post-216611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}