{"id":98470,"date":"2025-08-28T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98470\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:21:08","slug":"watch-the-rare-black-swan-seen-making-shrewsbury-its-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98470\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The rare black swan seen making Shrewsbury its new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Gomm captured this video of a black swan, near the <a href=\"https:\/\/originalshrewsbury.co.uk\/blog\/shrewsburys-seven-bridges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English Bridge<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/shrewsbury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">town<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual bird, with its distinctive red beak, can be seen wandering onto the mud bank, surrounded by other birds, and more familiar white swans.<\/p>\n<p>Joe said he had first noticed the swan last week, and did a double-take after initially assuming it was a cormorant &#8211; a species frequently seen in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8723baaf-4767-4aab-8792-93e92374871f.JPG\"   alt=\"The black swan which has been seen near Shrewsbury's English Bridge.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The black swan which has been seen near Shrewsbury&#8217;s English Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Joe, who has lived in Shrewsbury for more than 20 years, said it was the first time he had seen a black swan so far up the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c85a32df-9fec-45a5-8ecf-233caf297276.jpg\"   alt=\"The English Bridge in Shrewsbury.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The English Bridge in Shrewsbury.<\/p>\n<p>Black swans mainly originate from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australia.com\/en-gb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> where they are a native species, and the majority of black swans seen in the wild in the UK have usually escaped from private owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Gomm captured this video of a black swan, near the English Bridge in the town earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1397,18102,2652,50,90,25009,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-98470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-latest-videos","10":"tag-local-hubs","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-shrewsbury","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98470","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=98470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}