{"id":247953,"date":"2025-11-06T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:00:07","slug":"missing-flamingo-spotted-flying-over-estuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247953\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing flamingo spotted flying over estuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A bird spotted flying over an estuary in Cornwall has been confirmed to be missing flamingo Frankie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Frankie <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c33pmd6v4m8o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">escaped from Paradise Park in Hayle<\/a> on Sunday morning, despite having her wings clipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The park team confirmed a sighting of a large bird flying over the Hayle estuary at about 12:30 BST on Sunday was the missing flamingo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It helps show how she looks when flying, and she appears much pinker in flight than we expected,&#8221; the park said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The public has been urged to keep an eye out for Frankie in the Hayle, Newlyn and Longrock areas, where most of the sightings have come from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A park spokesperson said: &#8220;There is a lot going on behind the scenes and we really appreciate all your support and help trying to locate Frankie and bring her home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bird spotted flying over an estuary in Cornwall has been confirmed to be missing flamingo Frankie. Frankie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-247953","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\/247953","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=247953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}