{"id":647155,"date":"2026-06-19T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647155\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:46:15","slug":"king-penguin-egg-laid-at-birdland-park-for-first-time-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647155\/","title":{"rendered":"King penguin egg laid at Birdland Park for first time in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keen said the father Frank wass the &#8220;colony&#8217;s most experienced breeding male&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;French has reached breeding age for the first time and Frank has an outstanding track record as a parent, having previously fathered Spike,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Frank is actually about eight years older than king penguins would typically live in the wild, so while the odds of fertility are lower, they are certainly not impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said although there was &#8220;cautious optimism about the chances of success&#8221; it was an &#8220;exciting milestone for the colony&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Regardless of what happens, seeing this pair produce an egg after six years is wonderful news and an encouraging sign for the future of the colony.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keen said the father Frank wass the &#8220;colony&#8217;s most experienced breeding male&#8221;. &#8220;French has reached breeding age for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647155","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=647155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}