{"id":562137,"date":"2026-05-02T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562137\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:00:08","slug":"how-ospreys-were-tricked-into-breeding-at-poole-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562137\/","title":{"rendered":"How ospreys were &#8216;tricked&#8217; into breeding at Poole Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the time the juveniles migrate in August or September, the location is imprinted on their memory so, when they are ready to breed, usually after two or three years, they will return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both of the breeding males in Poole Harbour came from the translocation project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, a three-year-old male &#8211; 5H3 &#8211; that fledged from CJ7 and 022&#8217;s nest was also spotted, raising hopes that he too will attract a passing female.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As they are part of a scientific project, the birds do not have names and their ring numbers are assigned from a sequence ordered on a strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reflecting on the project&#8217;s success, Morton said: &#8220;It&#8217;s insane but there&#8217;s a much greater story than just the ospreys in all of this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Within hours in the one location we&#8217;ve seen white tailed eagles, red kites, peregrine falcons \u2013 all of which have been persecuted in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Species recovery is occurring and the ospreys are symbolic of a bigger set of stories that are going on here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time the juveniles migrate in August or September, the location is imprinted on their memory so,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-562137","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\/562137","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=562137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}