{"id":471814,"date":"2026-03-12T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:55:08","slug":"ai-helps-discover-rare-woodpeckers-call-in-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471814\/","title":{"rendered":"AI helps discover rare woodpecker&#8217;s call in Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time in more than three decades the lesser spotted woodpecker has been recorded in woodlands near East Grinstead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lesser spotted is the rarest of Britain&#8217;s woodpeckers and it is thought only 600 breeding pairs remain in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecologists used artificial intelligence (AI) to help identify the woodpecker&#8217;s call on more than 1,300 hours of field recordings taken last year on the William Robinson Gravetye Estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birds have been in decline since the 1980s and are on the UK red list of birds of conservation concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in more than three decades the lesser spotted woodpecker has been recorded in woodlands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-471814","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\/471814","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=471814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}