{"id":501157,"date":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501157\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:46:12","slug":"a-nip-to-the-tail-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501157\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nip to the Tail | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hira Punjabi&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Hira Punjabi (India) witnesses a rose-ringed parakeet delivering a painful nip to the tail of a Bengal monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Hira was in Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan, following this Bengal monitor lizard for four days.<\/p>\n<p>As it investigated a tree cavity for birds\u2019 eggs or chicks, it was mobbed by up to 12 parakeets at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Rose-ringed parakeets are native to the Indian subcontinent and equatorial Africa.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been introduced around the world as pets, and feral populations now thrive in cities across Europe, North America and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>They compete vigorously with native birds and bats for nest-holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hira Punjabi&#8217;s Image Hira Punjabi (India) witnesses a rose-ringed parakeet delivering a painful nip to the tail of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[164060,70,16,15,1717,164059,164058,164056,164057,164055],"class_list":{"0":"post-501157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-nature-photography","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115377549773313229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}