{"id":622961,"date":"2026-06-05T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:39:09","slug":"pesky-parrot-causing-havoc-to-cars-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622961\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesky parrot causing &#8216;havoc&#8217; to cars in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another resident, Chrissanne Robertson, said the bird was spotted in their street earlier this year and had been seen perched on her front door handle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And of course, we all thought it looked lovely, until we saw the damage it was doing to the cars,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She estimates that the bird has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage during its time on the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes it leaves, it can be away for a couple of weeks, and we think, &#8216;oh we won&#8217;t see it again&#8217;, but then somebody will go out the next day and you&#8217;ll here a shout of &#8216;he&#8217;s back again!&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another resident, Chrissanne Robertson, said the bird was spotted in their street earlier this year and had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-622961","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\/622961","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=622961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}