{"id":572495,"date":"2026-05-08T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:45:08","slug":"rare-white-tailed-eagles-draw-crowds-of-watchers-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572495\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare white-tailed eagles draw crowds of watchers in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlotte Caetano, from Bournemouth, has also been photographing the eagles, which are the UK&#8217;s largest bird of prey, with a wingspan of up to 2.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;You can be sitting there twiddling your thumbs for quite a while, and then all of a sudden the other birds, the seagulls and crows, start kicking up a fuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They erupt into a large cloud and you think, &#8216;hang on a minute, something&#8217;s coming&#8217;. It&#8217;s just a spectacle. Wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Caetano, from Bournemouth, has also been photographing the eagles, which are the UK&#8217;s largest bird of prey,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-572495","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\/572495","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=572495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}