{"id":136014,"date":"2025-09-14T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136014\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:02:24","slug":"cumbria-osprey-feeding-chick-not-its-own-unusual-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumbria osprey feeding chick not its own &#8216;unusual&#8217;, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It now needed to build up energy before it could migrate for the winter, said Mr Waterhouse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Older ospreys typically postpone their winter migrations until their all young have migrated first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Waterhouse said the osprey&#8217;s other chicks had already migrated \u2013 most likely to west Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But our male osprey is staying on&#8230;to help this young osprey survive and build up the strength,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s really, really interesting behaviour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Waterhouse is relatively certain the male osprey and the chick are not related because ospreys are generally &#8220;faithful to their site and female&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If this male osprey had another nest with a female on it&#8230;I think we would know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team are expecting the young osprey to be healthy enough to migrate in the next two weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It now needed to build up energy before it could migrate for the winter, said Mr Waterhouse. Older&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-136014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136014","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=136014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}