{"id":223481,"date":"2025-10-24T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223481\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:35:07","slug":"red-kites-found-nesting-in-sherwood-forest-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223481\/","title":{"rendered":"Red kites found nesting in Sherwood Forest for &#8216;first time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the last year in Sherwood Forest, rangers have ringed the highest number of birds in a year, including 315 blue tits, 70 great tits, 21 coal tits and 41 nuthatches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least eight of the 12 bat species recorded across the county were also observed across the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the summer, rangers counted more than 200 bats from one roost, Center Parcs said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the wildlife trust, which works with Center Parcs, said the records from this year&#8217;s count were &#8220;fascinating&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Center Parcs Sherwood has long had a healthy bat population, supported by the efforts of the rangers in installing roosting boxes and to have red kites, a species that was once extinct in England, now nesting shows that with effort we can turn the plight of cherished species around,&#8221; the spokesperson added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity added that it hoped the creature count would inspire others to record the wildlife they see around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last year in Sherwood Forest, rangers have ringed the highest number of birds in a year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-223481","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\/223481","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=223481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}