{"id":329123,"date":"2026-03-04T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329123\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:57:09","slug":"stormy-the-pine-marten-sets-up-home-at-stormont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329123\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormy the pine marten sets up home at Stormont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Pine martens are a rare enough sight these days but one of the elusive creatures has taken up residence at the home of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">As part of a conservation project, nocturnal cameras have been set up in the Stormont Estate to monitor the movements of the pine marten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The mammals can be identified individually by their fur coats because they each have unique markings on their throat and chest area, known as a &#8220;bib&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This particular pine marten, filmed at woods behind Parliament Buildings, has been given the name Stormy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pine martens are a rare enough sight these days but one of the elusive creatures has taken up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-329123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329123","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=329123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}