{"id":580428,"date":"2026-08-26T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580428\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:12:09","slug":"wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026-the-best-pictures-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580428\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 \u2013 the best pictures so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">While searching the reserve for wildlife, Porter photographed a red-billed oxpecker rubbing its bill against a white rhino&#8217;s skin in the afternoon light. The birds feed on insects living on rhinos and can also act as sentinels &#8211; calling to warn their hosts when danger approaches. In Swahili, the red-billed oxpecker is known as askari wa kifaru, meaning &#8220;the rhino&#8217;s guard&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While searching the reserve for wildlife, Porter photographed a red-billed oxpecker rubbing its bill against a white rhino&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-580428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580428","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=580428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}