{"id":714882,"date":"2026-07-28T06:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714882\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:42:37","slug":"baby-puffin-spotted-on-dorset-coast-for-first-time-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714882\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby puffin spotted on Dorset coast for first time in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Richard Caldow, an expert in seabirds, has estimated the puffling to be 38 to 40 days old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puffins typically start to grow feathers and learn to fly (a process known as fledging) between 38 and 44 days after hatching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Seeing the puffling was a great thrill, the first puffling that&#8217;s been recorded in Purbeck for a long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It tells us that Purbeck puffins can still lay fertile eggs, hatch them and, at least in some years, find enough food to rear a chick and escape the attention of predators.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Richard Caldow, an expert in seabirds, has estimated the puffling to be 38 to 40 days old.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-714882","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\/714882","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=714882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}