{"id":305864,"date":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:07:12","slug":"the-feast-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305864\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audun Rikardsen&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Audun Rikardsen (Norway) witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night in northern Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Audun managed to photograph this chaotic scene of gulls attempting to catch fish trapped by nets.<\/p>\n<p>The gulls have learnt to follow the sound of the boats to find a herring feast.<\/p>\n<p>Audun\u2019s work aims to draw attention to the ongoing conflict between seabirds and the fishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Many birds drown in or around these purse seine nets each year.<\/p>\n<p>Various fisheries and researchers are trialling solutions. These include sinking the nets more quickly to make them less accessible to the birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audun Rikardsen&#8217;s Image Audun Rikardsen (Norway) witnesses feeding time around an Atlantic fishing vessel during a polar night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17500,159,67,132,68,837,80059,154531,154529,154530,154528],"class_list":{"0":"post-305864","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115379283400614813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}