{"id":205043,"date":"2025-10-16T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:15:31","slug":"musk-turtle-motel-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205043\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Turtle Motel | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Szabo&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Szabo (USA) finds three loggerhead musk turtles sheltering in the soft clay bank of a spring-fed Florida swamp.<\/p>\n<p>While snorkelling, Isaac rounded a submerged tree and came face to face with one of the turtles.<\/p>\n<p>He moved slowly so as not to stir up the sediment, and recorded this moment before the turtle disappeared into its refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Loggerhead musk turtles are found in the southeastern United States, primarily Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution and increasing water extraction are damaging and reducing their habitat. However, their numbers are currently stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Szabo&#8217;s Image Isaac Szabo (USA) finds three loggerhead musk turtles sheltering in the soft clay bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205044,"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-205043","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\/205043","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=205043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}