{"id":632606,"date":"2026-06-11T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:57:08","slug":"lucky-duck-recovering-after-beak-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632606\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lucky duck&#8217; recovering after beak surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Feathers are a bit like a thatched roof,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Through preening, and with oils from their oil gland, they put all the feathers back into the correct order and become waterproof again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When birds are injured or unwell, they often lose that ability. Surgery is a major event for them, just as it is for people, and recovery takes time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duck will remain at Moyles Court for at least six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England emphasised that the centre is a charity relies on donations for its work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Feathers are a bit like a thatched roof,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Through preening, and with oils from their oil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-632606","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\/632606","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=632606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}