{"id":124143,"date":"2025-10-15T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124143\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:59:11","slug":"wetland-spat-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124143\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetland Spat | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shreyovi Mehta&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Shreyovi Mehta (India) spots a bronze-winged jacana (right) approaching a purple swamphen.<\/p>\n<p>Shreyovi was hidden behind a bush next to a trail, with her camera mounted on a tripod.<\/p>\n<p>With a fast shutter speed and impeccable timing, she photographed the swamphen\u2019s wings at full stretch and the jacana\u2019s instant departure.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by paddy fields, the Dhanauri Wetlands are home to a variety of wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>At peak migratory season, the site hosts over 50,000 migrant waterfowl.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are being made to give special protection to this remarkable habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shreyovi Mehta&#8217;s Image Shreyovi Mehta (India) spots a bronze-winged jacana (right) approaching a purple swamphen. Shreyovi was hidden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124144,"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-124143","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\/124143","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=124143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}