{"id":125105,"date":"2025-10-16T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125105\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:53:08","slug":"sand-swept-lark-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125105\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand-Swept Lark | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N\u00e9o Koslowski&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e9o Koslowski (Germany) braves the weather to portray this lark paused, head to wind, eyes closed against the swirling sand.<\/p>\n<p>On the small North Sea island of Du\u0308ne, N\u00e9o pressed himself into the sand, his eyes on a horned lark that had been gradually approaching him as it searched for food.<\/p>\n<p>He deftly photographed the scene \u2013 then spent an hour or so removing sand from his kit and ears.<\/p>\n<p>Horned larks are widespread. In Eurasia, these songbirds breed in Scandinavia and Arctic Russia. They migrate south in autumn, with small numbers visiting North Sea coasts.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re the only larks to live in tundra and alpine habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"N\u00e9o Koslowski&#8217;s Image N\u00e9o Koslowski (Germany) braves the weather to portray this lark paused, head to wind, eyes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125106,"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-125105","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\/125105","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=125105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}