{"id":34933,"date":"2025-03-04T00:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/pod-of-killer-whales-amaze-seattle-onlookers-with-rarely-seen-bird-hunt-video\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T00:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:51:01","slug":"pod-of-killer-whales-amaze-seattle-onlookers-with-rarely-seen-bird-hunt-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/pod-of-killer-whales-amaze-seattle-onlookers-with-rarely-seen-bird-hunt-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Pod of killer whales amaze Seattle onlookers with rarely seen bird hunt \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle. The pod of Bigg&#8217;s killer whales visited Elliott Bay apparently for a hunt just off Seattle&#8217;s maritime industrial docks. Kersti Muul, who runs a WhatsApp whale alert system for the Seattle area, recorded video as the whales appeared just below a lookout point showing interest in a bird. Eventually one of the whales takes the bird below water, sparking a reaction from onlookers. Bigg&#8217;s killer whales are orcas that usually prey on marine mammals like sea lions or porpoises. They visit the waters of Seattle occasionally<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2025\/mar\/03\/seattle-killer-whales-pod\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle. The pod of Bigg&#8217;s killer whales visited Elliott Bay apparently for a hunt just off Seattle&#8217;s maritime industrial docks. Kersti Muul, who runs a WhatsApp whale alert system for the Seattle area, recorded video as the whales appeared just below a lookout &#8230; <a title=\"Pod of killer whales amaze Seattle onlookers with rarely seen bird hunt \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/pod-of-killer-whales-amaze-seattle-onlookers-with-rarely-seen-bird-hunt-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pod of killer whales amaze Seattle onlookers with rarely seen bird hunt \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}