{"id":493892,"date":"2026-03-25T05:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:19:21","slug":"wonder-dog-saves-islands-seabirds-from-invasive-ferrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493892\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder dog saves island&#8217;s seabirds from invasive ferrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claire Barnett, a manager of the Bird charity RSPB, is hopeful there will be plenty more birds on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Seabird colonies can recover very, very quickly, so we&#8217;re very hopeful, and we&#8217;ve already seen some very promising signs from last year&#8217;s breeding season, that the numbers here will climb up and really secure themselves,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Removing ferrets also has benefits for the community, and means people can keep chickens without worrying their chicks or eggs might be snatched. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The island is home to Northern Ireland&#8217;s biggest seabird colony, with more than 250,000 birds, including puffins, razorbills and guillemots. It&#8217;s a popular tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woody is now the island&#8217;s biosecurity dog, which means he helps the humans keep out dangerous animals and diseases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Barnett, a manager of the Bird charity RSPB, is hopeful there will be plenty more birds on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-493892","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\/493892","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=493892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}