{"id":310526,"date":"2026-03-03T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310526\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:17:09","slug":"deep-sea-whale-strands-on-central-auckland-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310526\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea whale strands on central Auckland beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>3 Mar, 2026 04:14 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Project Jonah marine mammal medics and Department of Conservation staff respond to the stranding of a Shepherd\u2019s beaked whale at St Heliers. Photo \/ Project Jonah New Zealand<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A whale has stranded on St Heliers Beach in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Project Jonah, alongside the Department of Conservation (DoC), responded after a Shepherd\u2019s beaked whale was spotted late this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Spokeswoman Louisa Hawkes said Shepherd\u2019s beaked whales lived in the deep sea, and only came<br \/>\n         up to shore if something was wrong.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Massey University\u2019s Cetacean Ecology Research Group had done an initial assessment of the whale, but needed to assess it further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 3 Mar, 2026 04:14 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,7972,1853,101971,111,43,139,69,90,169143,26010],"class_list":{"0":"post-310526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-beach","10":"tag-central","11":"tag-deepsea","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-on","17":"tag-strands","18":"tag-whale"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}