{"id":81621,"date":"2025-10-15T06:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81621\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:47:08","slug":"legends-of-the-falls-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81621\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends of the Falls | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Gerrits&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Gerrits (Finland) finds a gap in the misty curtain near the falls of Sk\u00f3gafoss to reveal nesting northern fulmars.<\/p>\n<p>There was a strong, blustery wind on the day Stefan visited Sk\u00f3gafoss. This created a constant veil of spray that hid the birds from view and coated his camera lens with fine water droplets.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, enough gaps appeared in the mist to enable him to photograph this scene.<\/p>\n<p>The northern fulmars at Sk\u00f3gafoss fly across the 60-metre-high (197-foot) waterfall to nest in the nearby cliffs.<\/p>\n<p>Fulmars are widespread across northern latitudes. In Europe, populations have been declining since the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefan Gerrits&#8217;s Image Stefan Gerrits (Finland) finds a gap in the misty curtain near the falls of Sk\u00f3gafoss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-81621","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-nature-photography","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81621","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=81621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}