{"id":608973,"date":"2026-08-30T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608973\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:18:19","slug":"young-pelican-returned-to-wild-after-recovering-from-infection-injuries-to-ankles-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608973\/","title":{"rendered":"Young pelican returned to wild after recovering from infection, injuries to ankles &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A young pelican is back where it belongs after a rough few months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bird arrived at the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in May with a pouch and eye infection, feeling very weak and with injuries to both ankles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After nearly three months of extensive medical care and physical therapy, the station\u2019s medical team determined it was fully recovered and released it back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To date, the seabird station has rehabbed more than 9,000 pelicans since they opened in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A young pelican is back where it belongs after a rough few months. The bird&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-608973","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\/608973","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=608973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}