{"id":83860,"date":"2025-10-16T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:38:22","slug":"the-feast-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83860\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audun Rikardsen&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Audun Rikardsen (Norway) witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night in northern Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Audun managed to photograph this chaotic scene of gulls attempting to catch fish trapped by nets.<\/p>\n<p>The gulls have learnt to follow the sound of the boats to find a herring feast.<\/p>\n<p>Audun\u2019s work aims to draw attention to the ongoing conflict between seabirds and the fishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Many birds drown in or around these purse seine nets each year.<\/p>\n<p>Various fisheries and researchers are trialling solutions. These include sinking the nets more quickly to make them less accessible to the birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audun Rikardsen&#8217;s Image Audun Rikardsen (Norway) witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83861,"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":["post-83860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83860","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=83860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}