{"id":297317,"date":"2025-11-20T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297317\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:36:09","slug":"pi-the-whale-returns-to-isles-of-scilly-during-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297317\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi the whale returns to Isles of Scilly during migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A humpback whale that has become a regular visitor to the Isles of Scilly has returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust said had been visiting the islands in winter over several years, including in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Olivia Willmore, fundraising and communications manager at Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, said the appearances had been &#8220;absolutely wonderful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said the islands, 28 miles (45km) off the Cornish coast, were on the migration route. &#8220;We are so privileged to have them pass by us every single year,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Willmore said the trust knew the whale was Pi because of the markings on its dorsal fin but the gender of the whale was unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said: &#8220;Those markings are incredibly unique from whale to whale so they are almost like a human fingerprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Scilly is an enormous draw for wildlife watchers anyway, you know, our seabirds are, we have some extraordinary unique colonies that land on the islands, but I think certainly some people are starting to come with the hope of whale spotting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A humpback whale that has become a regular visitor to the Isles of Scilly has returned. The Isles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-297317","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\/297317","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=297317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}