{"id":525493,"date":"2026-06-30T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:23:08","slug":"livestream-captures-young-bald-eagle-taking-first-flight-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525493\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestream captures young bald eagle taking first flight in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">A young bald eagle has taken flight, leaving an empty nest in Big Bear Valley, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Thousands tuned in to a popular livestream set up by Friends of Big Bear Valley, to watch the juvenile eagle, nicknamed Luna, flap its wings and glide to a nearby tree for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">A group of bird watchers also gathered in the California valley, east of Los Angeles, to witness the action in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young bald eagle has taken flight, leaving an empty nest in Big Bear Valley, California. Thousands tuned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-525493","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\/525493","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=525493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}