{"id":405034,"date":"2026-02-03T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:33:09","slug":"warning-after-birds-glued-down-by-sticky-rodent-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405034\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning after birds glued down by sticky rodent traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re so feisty, robins, so he wasn&#8217;t giving up without a fight,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The left wing was badly stuck to both sides. We tried coconut oil to get it off \u2013 but it&#8217;s so fragile that would have caused a bone break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The bones in birds&#8217; wings are hollow and light, allowing them to fly so we did have to lose some feathers to get it off which he will regain, depending on how long he takes to moult,&#8221; she explained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The problem with small birds is that they can die of stress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However the good news is that the robin, who has been given pain relief, is &#8220;in great form&#8221; and Julie hopes he will be able to be released back into the wild within a few months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;re so feisty, robins, so he wasn&#8217;t giving up without a fight,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The left wing was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-405034","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\/405034","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=405034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}