{"id":561178,"date":"2026-06-30T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/561178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:24:09","slug":"feliks-the-eagle-is-back-home-in-serbia-after-a-kidnap-ordeal-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/561178\/","title":{"rendered":"Feliks the eagle is back home in Serbia after a kidnap ordeal in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"I6Q55Z7RS5BO3OXAMTFOOJTJ4Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BELGRADE, Serbia \u2014 Feliks\u2019 journey resembles a Hollywood movie script, with kidnappers, smugglers and clandestine border crossings.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SFJC35TJVVA6DDXUPTUV3W5KRE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The year-old eastern imperial eagle from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/search?q=Serbia#nt=navsearch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serbia<\/a> , started flying in August and later set off on his first migratory flight toward the Middle East, only to be captured by poachers, sold illegally and retrieved in a daring cross-border mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELGRADE, Serbia \u2014 Feliks\u2019 journey resembles a Hollywood movie script, with kidnappers, smugglers and clandestine border crossings. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[100,79,3477,18,239770,3334,19,17,1381,133,461,66],"class_list":["post-561178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-business","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-eire","tag-eu-serbia-eagles-journey","tag-general-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kidnapping","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116837866698539225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561178","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=561178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}