{"id":190530,"date":"2026-04-09T05:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:37:06","slug":"new-yorkers-flock-to-manhattan-park-for-lovable-woodcocks-bobbing-strut-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190530\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers flock to Manhattan park for lovable woodcocks&#8217; bobbing strut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2O5YVYLRAFBQZG4BFJJJASYJOU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 American woodcocks came to New York City looking to strut their stuff, and New Yorkers fell in love.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"J4WR2PEP3FA4ZIST7ICAIAF7CM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The curious birds, known for their bobbing walks and kazoo-like calls, have drawn a crowd to Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan since arriving in late March. Dozens of spectators are gathering at the park every day to try to catch a glimpse of the grapefruit-sized birds as they poke their long bills in the ground for earthworms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 American woodcocks came to New York City looking to strut their stuff, and New Yorkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1457,13718,417,9,24,55,54,56,16167,421,76318],"class_list":{"0":"post-190530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-climate-and-environment","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-oddities","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-us-ny-american-woodcock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}