{"id":226638,"date":"2025-10-15T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/226638\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:56:11","slug":"musk-turtle-motel-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/226638\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Turtle Motel | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Szabo&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Szabo (USA) finds three loggerhead musk turtles sheltering in the soft clay bank of a spring-fed Florida swamp.<\/p>\n<p>While snorkelling, Isaac rounded a submerged tree and came face to face with one of the turtles.<\/p>\n<p>He moved slowly so as not to stir up the sediment, and recorded this moment before the turtle disappeared into its refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Loggerhead musk turtles are found in the southeastern United States, primarily Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution and increasing water extraction are damaging and reducing their habitat. However, their numbers are currently stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Szabo&#8217;s Image Isaac Szabo (USA) finds three loggerhead musk turtles sheltering in the soft clay bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[80748,79,201,126555,126554,126552,126553,126551],"class_list":["post-226638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}