{"id":785516,"date":"2026-07-07T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:40:08","slug":"a-preys-view-nat-geo-photo-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785516\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prey&#8217;s View | Nat Geo Photo of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Lukas Andree Andersen visited Lake Kerkini in Greece, a famous wintering ground for the Dalmatian pelican, he figured he\u2019d get close to these imposing creatures. He didn\u2019t anticipate how close. After a pelican landed on the roof of his boat, it grabbed the photographer\u2019s wide-angle lens with its pointy bill. \u201cI just started shooting,\u201d says Andersen, who somehow managed to frame the perfect angle of a pelican staring down at its prey. This photo is featured in the &#8220;In Focus&#8221; series in the July 2026 issue of National Geographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Lukas Andree Andersen visited Lake Kerkini in Greece, a famous wintering ground for the Dalmatian pelican, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-785516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785516","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=785516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}