{"id":514129,"date":"2026-04-05T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:37:07","slug":"visitors-flock-to-wolverhampton-for-glimpse-of-escaped-eagle-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514129\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors flock to Wolverhampton for glimpse of escaped Eagle Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The head gardener added: &#8220;She will fly around the area in the evening and she&#8217;s been seen in the Smestow Valley and beyond our trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Currently there has been no negative impact. We&#8217;re monitoring her alongside the Wild Zoological Park, and we will make sure that she&#8217;s okay, that the other wildlife on site is okay, because we just want the best for her and to celebrate this privilege to have her in our trees where people can see her.&#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 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They don&#8217;t get here naturally, so it&#8217;s basically impossible to spot them in the UK in the wild&#8230; it&#8217;s super mega rare. It&#8217;s the only one I&#8217;ve seen in the UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head gardener added: &#8220;She will fly around the area in the evening and she&#8217;s been seen in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-514129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514129","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=514129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}