{"id":529087,"date":"2026-01-20T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529087\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:10:11","slug":"sylvan-heights-bird-park-welcomes-endangered-brazilian-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529087\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvan Heights Bird Park welcomes endangered Brazilian ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SCOTLAND NECK, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A wildlife park in Eastern Carolina has been selected to care for an endangered duck species from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sylvan Heights Bird Park is one of only two sanctuaries outside Brazil to welcome the elusive Brazilian Mergansers, along with Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The species is considered one of the most critically endangered ducks in the world, with an estimated total of only 50 to 250.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Park officials attribute the decline to worsening water quality in rivers and streams, which is often caused by agricultural practices, soil erosion, and building dams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe Brazilian Merganser is a species on the brink,\u201d says Dr. Dustin Foote, Director of Aviculture at Sylvan Heights Bird Park. \u201cHowever, there\u2019s a really great group of people and organizations that have been working together to help safeguard this species from extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Potential breeding pairs were sent to both parks to increase the likelihood of survival and reproduction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTLAND NECK, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A wildlife park in Eastern Carolina has been selected to care for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[234673,40756,234674,234675,37488,71096,30341,215602,746,234677,17878,519,159,234676,234672,67,132,68,36907],"class_list":{"0":"post-529087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bird-park","9":"tag-brazilian","10":"tag-brazilian-bird","11":"tag-brazilian-birds","12":"tag-duck","13":"tag-ducks","14":"tag-endangered","15":"tag-endangered-birds","16":"tag-environment","17":"tag-halifax-county","18":"tag-nc","19":"tag-north-carolina","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-scotland-neck","22":"tag-sylvan-heights-bird-park","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-witn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115925707816632367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529087","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=529087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}