{"id":675173,"date":"2026-05-31T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:06:08","slug":"ospreys-appear-to-be-signaling-lake-tahoes-ecological-health-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675173\/","title":{"rendered":"Ospreys appear to be signaling Lake Tahoe\u2019s ecological health, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (KOLO) &#8211; Lake Tahoe ospreys can be seen around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=506\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=506\">Emerald Bay State Park<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=505\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=505\">D.L. Bliss State Park<\/a>, and around the Truckee River, according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SierraSPF\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SierraSPF\">Sierra State Parks Foundation Facebook<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSeeing them is a great sign, as they are vital indicators of the lake\u2019s ecological health!\u201d according to the parks foundation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ospreys are iconic summer raptors known for diving into the water to hunt fish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The raptors are often confused with Bald Eagles, which also live in the basin, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ospreys are smaller and have a dark brown \u201cbandit mask\u201d stripe through their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOLO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (KOLO) &#8211; Lake Tahoe ospreys can be seen around Emerald Bay State Park, D.L.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[294412,294414,294411,19407,294410,7356,79,294413,50474,201],"class_list":["post-675173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-d-l-bliss-state-park","tag-ecological-health","tag-emerald-bay-state-park","tag-lake-tahoe","tag-lake-tahoe-ospreys","tag-ospreys","tag-science","tag-sierra-state-parks-foundation","tag-truckee-river","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675173","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=675173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}