{"id":661295,"date":"2025-12-29T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661295\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:57:09","slug":"thousands-of-dead-creatures-found-on-snettisham-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661295\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of dead creatures found on Snettisham beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Seals, flatfish and common scoter birds were just some of the animals that have washed up on the coast in Snettisham during the last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rough seas, which saw Christmas Day and Boxing Day dips cancelled, are believed to be the reason for the deaths.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A female common scoter bird found on the beach (Image: Andrew Waddison \/ Wild Ken Hill)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Andrew Waddison, who works for Wild Ken Hill, said: \u201cVery often after stormy weather, we see a multitude of sea creatures washed up on the tideline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This week, there were thousands of young flatfish, but we have previously witnessed masses of starfish, razor clams and much more.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Thousands of flatfish were found (Image: Andrew Waddison \/ Wild Ken Hill)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Seal carcasses are also regularly seen, which is a reflection of the booming population we have along our coast at the moment.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;These entirely natural events may appear shocking to people, this is a perfectly normal event, and they will provide much-needed nutrients to the many shorebirds which we welcome to the Norfolk coast every winter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seals, flatfish and common scoter birds were just some of the animals that have washed up on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-661295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115805568564514925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661295","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=661295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}