{"id":579766,"date":"2026-04-02T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:07:11","slug":"the-rusty-chook-to-return-to-kirra-swellnet-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579766\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rusty Chook To Return To Kirra | Swellnet Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a five-year absence, the Kirra eagle will shortly return to its perch.<\/p>\n<p>First erected on Kirra headland in 1983 to commemorate Coolangatta&#8217;s centenary, the metal sculpture was only intended to last twenty years. It remained there almost twice as long, finally being removed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The new sculpture comes\u00a0at a cost of $300,000 and is an exact replica.<\/p>\n<p>The eagle will return to Kirra Hill mid-May.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RXiLQa4.jpeg\" style=\"width: 1080px; height: 1223px;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a five-year absence, the Kirra eagle will shortly return to its perch. First erected on Kirra headland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-579766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579766","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=579766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}