{"id":437876,"date":"2026-02-21T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:07:10","slug":"percival-the-guernsey-puffin-found-weak-and-covered-in-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437876\/","title":{"rendered":"Percival the Guernsey puffin found weak and covered in oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GSPCA said Percival was one of the few survivors of a &#8220;worrying and widespread incident affecting coastal wildlife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said similar events in the past were caused by &#8220;severe storms and environmental disturbance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rough weather exhausts many species of seabirds and makes feeding incredibly difficult,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When this oil coats a bird&#8217;s feathers, it destroys their waterproofing, leaving them cold, unable to fly or float, and in danger of poisoning as they try to clean the toxic substance from their plumage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GSPCA said Percival was one of the few survivors of a &#8220;worrying and widespread incident affecting coastal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-437876","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\/437876","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=437876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}