{"id":288353,"date":"2025-11-13T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/288353\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:25:08","slug":"how-big-is-the-shoebill-take-a-look-in-these-mysterious-and-stunning-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/288353\/","title":{"rendered":"How big is the Shoebill? Take a look in these mysterious and stunning images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out, Influencers: the Shoebill has arrived. An absolute prehistoric gem of a bird, the shoe-billed beauty recently set the internet ablaze after landing on a boat in Mabamba Bay, Uganda. That sparked a social media firestorm, including questions about the bird&#8217;s height. The answer? Some have reached five feet, with a wingspan over eight feet. With that in mind, take a look at some of the best photos of this majestic bird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look out, Influencers: the Shoebill has arrived. An absolute prehistoric gem of a bird, the shoe-billed beauty recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,151580,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-288353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-shoebill","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288353","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=288353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}