{"id":123154,"date":"2025-10-15T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:39:13","slug":"the-feast-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123154\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audun Rikardsen&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Audun Rikardsen (Norway) witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night in northern Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Audun managed to photograph this chaotic scene of gulls attempting to catch fish trapped by nets.<\/p>\n<p>The gulls have learnt to follow the sound of the boats to find a herring feast.<\/p>\n<p>Audun\u2019s work aims to draw attention to the ongoing conflict between seabirds and the fishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Many birds drown in or around these purse seine nets each year.<\/p>\n<p>Various fisheries and researchers are trialling solutions. These include sinking the nets more quickly to make them less accessible to the birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audun Rikardsen&#8217;s Image Audun Rikardsen (Norway) witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}