{"id":201375,"date":"2025-10-15T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201375\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:20:11","slug":"a-nip-to-the-tail-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/201375\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nip to the Tail | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hira Punjabi&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Hira Punjabi (India) witnesses a rose-ringed parakeet delivering a painful nip to the tail of a Bengal monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Hira was in Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan, following this Bengal monitor lizard for four days.<\/p>\n<p>As it investigated a tree cavity for birds\u2019 eggs or chicks, it was mobbed by up to 12 parakeets at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Rose-ringed parakeets are native to the Indian subcontinent and equatorial Africa.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been introduced around the world as pets, and feral populations now thrive in cities across Europe, North America and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>They compete vigorously with native birds and bats for nest-holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hira Punjabi&#8217;s Image Hira Punjabi (India) witnesses a rose-ringed parakeet delivering a painful nip to the tail of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[52516,90,56,54,55,4407,87071,87070,47419,87069,87068],"class_list":["post-201375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201375","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=201375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}