{"id":371411,"date":"2026-01-15T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371411\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:38:07","slug":"whooper-swans-descend-on-martin-mere-for-milder-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371411\/","title":{"rendered":"Whooper swans descend on Martin Mere for milder winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of &#8220;striking&#8221; whooper swans from Iceland have descended on a frozen wetland in Lancashire to enjoy a milder winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Mere in Burscough, which is managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) recorded its first significant influx of whooper swans, with more than 100 birds counted throughout the day on 5 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are now more than 800 of the bird species at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornelius Jones, from Martin Mere, said: &#8220;So obviously Iceland, it&#8217;s in the name, it&#8217;s icy, it&#8217;s very cold and I know it&#8217;s very icy and very cold out here as well but they do prefer it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of &#8220;striking&#8221; whooper swans from Iceland have descended on a frozen wetland in Lancashire to enjoy a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-371411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371411","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=371411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}