{"id":160910,"date":"2025-09-26T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160910\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:05:10","slug":"visitors-flock-to-see-rare-glossy-ibis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160910\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors flock to see &#8216;rare&#8217; Glossy ibis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Glossy ibis, a bird that was once a rare visitor to the UK, has been spotted in Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of visitors have arrived in Dungeness to see the birds after 19 were seen in the area with more sighted further along the south coast of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have a long, curved bill and iridescent feathers and are most commonly spotted in hotter climates in continental Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Edwards, site manager for RSPB Dungeness and Worth Marshes, said that &#8220;climate change&#8221; was responsible for the &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; number of Glossy ibis arriving in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Glossy ibis, a bird that was once a rare visitor to the UK, has been spotted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-160910","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\/160910","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=160910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}