{"id":395060,"date":"2026-01-28T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395060\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:43:08","slug":"rare-all-white-deer-spotted-wandering-through-new-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395060\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare all-white deer spotted wandering through New Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Daily Echo Camera Club member, Paul Brady, has snapped an impressive shot of an all white deer walking near Bashford Lakes in the New Forest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The picture shows a fallow deer with a white coat, not a separate species \u2013 the white animals are a colour variant of fallow deer, which are native to the New Forest and the most common deer species there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25800871.man-jailed-child-sexual-abuse-former-romsey-childrens-home\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man jailed for child sexual abuse at former Romsey children\u2019s home<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pale colour is caused by genetics, usually leucism, which reduces pigment in the coat. This is different from albinism and most white fallow deer have dark eyes and noses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  White fallow deer are rare, but the New Forest is one of the few places in the UK where they can be regularly spotted due to the long-established, stable deer population.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their colour makes them more visible to predators and people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Echo Camera Club member, Paul Brady, has snapped an impressive shot of an all white deer walking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-395060","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\/395060","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=395060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}