{"id":210976,"date":"2025-12-25T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:47:08","slug":"readers-wildlife-photos-why-evolution-is-true-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210976\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader\u2019s wildlife photos \u2013 Why Evolution Is True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aithm.jcu.edu.au\/professor-scott-ritchie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Ritchie<\/a> of Cairns, Australia, posted this photo on his FB page as his Bird of the Year, along with an ID and message:<\/p>\n<p>My bird of the year is, without a doubt, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainbow_bee-eater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rainbow Bee-eater<\/a> [Merops ornatus]. I had a piece<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calameo.com\/read\/004107895fe9d41dc697d?authid=k30HRoodGnzf&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExelhjc2Q4Mm90WjFVaFpQN3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6vl_4U_sw9mlyX-GQpAEn6jKNUGFnirjuTxF3915o6NNkCZq3JVsWZmPd5kw_aem_IpPFjPOxoAFNBijBGLTMbw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> published in Australian Birdlife<\/a> on the lives of these pretty birds at our local cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>This photo captures the spirit of these birds, and of Christmas. Family, friends, good food, colour and spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>I will post my favourite bird photos after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>A Merry Christmas to you all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whyevolutionistrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/602959062_924110373273574_5656969500648060143_n.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-583188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/602959062_924110373273574_5656969500648060143_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"704\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Ritchie of Cairns, Australia, posted this photo on his FB page as his Bird of the Year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-210976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}