{"id":263902,"date":"2025-11-05T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:32:24","slug":"baby-echidna-rescued-after-wandering-too-close-to-hobart-airport-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263902\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby echidna rescued after wandering too close to Hobart Airport runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby echidna has been plucked from danger at Hobart Airport after wandering perilously close to the active runway.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Operations Officer Bailey spotted the little creature heading towards the tarmac on Wednesday and quickly scooped up the spiky marsupial before releasing it safely into nearby bushland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, not a snake this time. Runway in the background here,\u201d he said in a social media video posted by the airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people think that wildlife management on an aerodrome would be mainly birds like the cockatoos behind me which a lot of the time it is but sometimes it\u2019s a bit cuter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50344\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/53ee0724-h9lm9llijtuipts_1nekd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53ee0724-h9lm9llijtuipts_1nekd.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"53ee0724-h9lm9llijtuipts_1nekd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Senior Operations Officer Bailey. Image \/ Supplied&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/53ee0724-h9lm9llijtuipts_1nekd-300x375.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53ee0724-h9lm9llijtuipts_1nekd.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53ee0724-h9lm9llijtuipts_1nekd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\"  \/>Senior Operations Officer Bailey. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, who is also a trained snake handler, has developed a reputation as the airport\u2019s go-to wildlife wrangler.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, Bailey captured and safely relocated a snake discovered on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/53ee0724-51q3i8g1l0pzls0_u8gmu\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53ee0724-51q3i8g1l0pzls0_u8gmu.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"53ee0724-51q3i8g1l0pzls0_u8gmu\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Baby echidna rescued after wandering too close to Hobart Airport runway. Image \/ Supplied&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/53ee0724-51q3i8g1l0pzls0_u8gmu-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/53ee0724-51q3i8g1l0pzls0_u8gmu-1024x682.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53ee0724-51q3i8g1l0pzls0_u8gmu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/>Baby echidna rescued after wandering too close to Hobart Airport runway. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis little echidna here he was unfortunately heading towards the runway there behind me so I\u2019ve just picked him up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll take him in the car here get him into some nearby bush where he\u2019ll be nice and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby echidna has been plucked from danger at Hobart Airport after wandering perilously close to the active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-263902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263902","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=263902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}