{"id":81857,"date":"2025-10-16T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81857\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:19:20","slug":"pink-pose-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81857\/","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":81858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5924,111,139,69,147,406,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-81857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857","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=81857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}