{"id":505612,"date":"2026-03-31T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:01:07","slug":"rare-owl-spotted-in-wild-after-wolverhampton-zoo-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505612\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare owl spotted in wild after Wolverhampton zoo escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;She is unlikely to be a threat to the ecological balance in the area,\u202fno\u202fmore\u202fso than any other avian predator,\u202fsuch as falcons or buzzards, or a fox. We will keep an eye on wildlife in the area as part of our routine checks and keep in contact with Wild Zoological Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important that members of the public remember she is a wild animal and should be treated as such; with respect and admiration from a distance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors have taken to social media to share their sightings of the &#8220;majestic&#8221; bird which caught the eye of local wildlife content creator James Cook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a very imposing, impressive thing to see. I was in awe,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old from Leamington Spa added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen them in South Africa and spoke to a couple of people who said that it&#8217;s been here for about three years on and off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After a quick search, there it was, sitting in the tree looking all majestic and glorious.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson said: &#8220;She is unlikely to be a threat to the ecological balance in the area,\u202fno\u202fmore\u202fso than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-505612","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\/505612","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=505612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}