{"id":128573,"date":"2025-09-10T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128573\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:31:13","slug":"bird-of-prey-that-was-extinct-in-england-seen-in-new-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128573\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird of prey that was extinct in England seen in New Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Daily Echo Camera Club member Jordan Callaghan a majestic osprey cruising right above his head at Lepe beach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The baby female bird of prey was ringed in Scotland at some point this summer and Jordan posted on social media to explain his shock at seeing the once-persecuted osprey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jordan said: &#8220;Not everyday you get an osprey flying right above your head and so close.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The species became extinct in England in 1847 after egg collectors caused the population &#8220;to crash&#8221;, according to Forestry England.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dubbed the &#8220;sea hawk&#8221; by the forest body for its pescetarian preferences, ospreys re-colonised in Scotland in the 1950s and have seen moved southwards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The osprey is nicknamed the &#8220;sea hawk&#8221;.(Image: Jordan Callaghan)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The birds can often live for between 20 and 25 years, with wingspans as long as 1.6 metres for females.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to Hampshire Wildlife Trust, ospreys migrate to West Africa during winter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The wildlife trust&#8217;s website said: &#8220;Satellite tracking has shown them flying up to 430 km in just one day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It takes them about 20 flying days to complete the journey, but, in autumn, birds stop off to refuel at lakes and reservoirs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Echo Camera Club member Jordan Callaghan a majestic osprey cruising right above his head at Lepe beach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-128573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}