{"id":622358,"date":"2026-06-05T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622358\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:09:11","slug":"curlews-endangered-bird-eggs-hatch-after-being-saved-from-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622358\/","title":{"rendered":"Curlews: Endangered bird eggs hatch after being saved from wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Normanly said the chicks are still &#8220;quite vulnerable&#8221; but when they are about three weeks old, they will be moved to bird pens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And once they can fly and look after themselves, the RSPB plans to release them fairly close to where they came from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Caroline Finlay, Director of Conservation at Detection Dogs NI, said there were  &#8220;birds who&#8217;ve been raised in captivity before, now nesting on Sliabh Beagh successfully, which is absolutely fantastic&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not a common thing, but it&#8217;s great to see that this is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These chicks can go on and have their own nests and their own eggs and own babies eventually, so it&#8217;s a great story,&#8221; Finlay said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normanly said the chicks are still &#8220;quite vulnerable&#8221; but when they are about three weeks old, they will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-622358","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\/622358","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=622358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}