{"id":278,"date":"2026-09-04T00:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/miracle-eagle-with-broken-wing-spotted-soaring-over-scotland\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:46:54","slug":"miracle-eagle-with-broken-wing-spotted-soaring-over-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/miracle-eagle-with-broken-wing-spotted-soaring-over-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Miracle&#8217; Eagle With Broken Wing Spotted Soaring Over Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sea eagle that defied veterinary expectations by surviving into adulthood despite a severe wing injury has been observed flying over Scotland&#8217;s west coast. The bird, known as the Isle of Mull&#8217;s &#8220;miracle eagle,&#8221; fell from its nest during a storm in 2023, an incident that led the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to label it as such due to the low probability of its survival.<\/p>\n<p>Experts monitoring the island&#8217;s sea eagle population initially doubted the male chick would live past its infancy. However, the bird has been sighted three years later, soaring above the island with a distinctive kink in its wing clearly visible. Dave Sexton, a retired RSPB officer who has studied the local sea eagle population for over two decades, described the rare sighting as &#8220;incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sea eagle with a severely broken wing, dubbed a &#8216;miracle&#8217; after surviving against the odds, has been spotted flying above the Isle of Mull three years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[548,741,740,162,323,739],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate","tag-conservation","tag-rspb","tag-science","tag-scotland","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}