{"id":399923,"date":"2026-01-10T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399923\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:40:07","slug":"missouri-department-of-conservation-shares-photos-of-rare-bald-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399923\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Department of Conservation shares photos of rare bald eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bald eagle with a rare color pattern was spotted in Newton County last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shared photos of a leucistic bald eagle that Betty Daniel and her husband, Ron, spotted in Stella.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MDC, Betty said \u201cit was amazing\u201d to see the majestic eagle.<\/p>\n<p>A leucistic bald eagle is an extremely rare bird with a genetic condition that causes partial or total loss of pigmentation, resulting in white or pale feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bald eagle with a rare color pattern was spotted in Newton County last weekend. The Missouri Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-399923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399923","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=399923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}