{"id":80069,"date":"2025-10-15T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80069\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:23:08","slug":"sunrise-hop-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80069\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Hop | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising Scandinavian sun.<\/p>\n<p>Marc camped out in the snow for five nights to ensure he was in position at sunrise to get the picture he\u2019d envisaged.<\/p>\n<p>Lying on his belly, he waited, hoping that one of the 15 black grouse would move into line with the sun.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, one obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Male black grouse have blue-black iridescent plumage. As they raise their tails, they reveal brilliant white covert feathers.<\/p>\n<p>For a few weeks in spring, they congregate at sites called leks to compete for dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,5924,111,139,69,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-80069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069","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=80069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}