{"id":234800,"date":"2025-10-30T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234800\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:08:11","slug":"rare-glossy-ibis-bird-pictured-at-welney-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234800\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare glossy ibis bird pictured at Welney Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Nick Bowman was out taking photos at Welney Nature Reserve last week when he captured the sight of a glossy ibis bird.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There aren&#8217;t many of these birds in the United Kingdom, but they have started to breed,&#8221; Mr Bowman said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This is the first time I have been lucky enough to get some &#8216;in-flight&#8217; shots and obviously pleased to see and get a good picture.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25451998.rare-bird-seen-tree-thornham-norfolk-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rare bird seen in tree in Thornham on Norfolk coast<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The glossy ibis is a heron-like bird with a long, curving beak and is a rare visitor to the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Most glossy ibises arrive in autumn, occasionally staying through the winter, though they could be seen in any month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They breed in parts of southern and southeast Europe and have become occasional visitors to the UK in recent years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Glossy ibises made a couple of breeding attempts in England in 2014 and 2016, with the first confirmed successful nest in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Bowman was out taking photos at Welney Nature Reserve last week when he captured the sight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-234800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234800","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=234800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}