{"id":231440,"date":"2025-10-29T05:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:09:14","slug":"large-vulture-flies-into-costa-blanca-home-to-chill-out-on-living-room-sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231440\/","title":{"rendered":"Large vulture flies into Costa Blanca home to chill out on living room sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LARGE griffon vulture flew into a Torrevieja home last Thursday at around 9.30pm and made itself comfortable on top of a sofa. <\/p>\n<p>The homeowner found the bird calmly enjoying life in her living room, after entering through an open window.  <\/p>\n<p>Once she got over her surprise, the owner phoned police who arrived with animal control experts.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vultures-big-wingspan-490x490.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444619\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>BIG WINGSPAN<\/p>\n<p>The vulture gave them no trouble at all and spent the night at the municipal animal shelter.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, it was transferred to the Santa Faz Wildlife Animal Recovery Centre in Alicante.<\/p>\n<p>Specialists have been ensuring that it has been unharmed by its unusual journey before making plans to release it into its natural habitat.<\/p>\n<p>The griffon vulture is classified as a protected species.<\/p>\n<p>At this time of the year, it is not a surprise to see it pop up in unusual locations due to changing winds and migratory movements.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed the bird just wanted a rest after a long tiring journey with the sofa perfectly suiting its requirements!<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/category\/costa-blanca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Costa Blanca News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LARGE griffon vulture flew into a Torrevieja home last Thursday at around 9.30pm and made itself comfortable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[98199,2851,42164,98200,62876,28055,98201,90,62877,98202,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-231440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alicante-province","tag-animals","tag-costa-blanca","tag-griffon-vulture-flies-into-house","tag-news-spain","tag-newspaper","tag-santa-faz-wildlife-animal-recovery-centre","tag-science","tag-the-olive-press","tag-torrevieja","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231440","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=231440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}