{"id":645422,"date":"2026-10-05T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645422\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:20:09","slug":"drivers-in-kerry-warned-to-be-extra-vigilant-for-deer-on-roads-as-rutting-season-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/645422\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers in Kerry warned to be extra vigilant for deer on roads as rutting season underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers in Kerry are being warned to be extra vigilant for deer on the roads as stags are on the lookout for love.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/irishdeercommission.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Deer Commission<\/a> says breeding season leads to an increase in road traffic incidents involving the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Rutting season, which typically runs between September and November, sees male <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/deer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deer<\/a> go in search of females, and younger males are ousted by dominant stags, forcing deer to cross public roads and motorways.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers and others who live in rural areas are being advised to keep a minimum safe distance of 50m if they encounter wild male deer on their lands, according to Agriland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers in Kerry are being warned to be extra vigilant for deer on the roads as stags are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-645422","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\/645422","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=645422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}