{"id":83914,"date":"2025-10-16T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83914\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:14:21","slug":"pink-pose-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83914\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Pose | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leana Kuster&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Leana Kuster (Switzerland) shows a greater flamingo scratching its head with one of its unmistakably long legs.<\/p>\n<p>While on holiday in southern France, Leana had been watching flamingos in the Camargue.<\/p>\n<p>They moved gracefully through the shallow, saline wetlands, filter feeding for molluscs and crustaceans.<\/p>\n<p>Flamingos use their tongues to force water through their specially adapted bills, which are lined with many rows of fine, comb-like plates.<\/p>\n<p>These plates help trap a species of brine shrimp called Artemia salina. This gives the birds their famous pink hue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leana Kuster&#8217;s Image Leana Kuster (Switzerland) shows a greater flamingo scratching its head with one of its unmistakably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83915,"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-83914","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\/83914","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=83914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}