{"id":6982,"date":"2025-02-14T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mu.is\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:26:06","slug":"vidar-the-whooper-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mu.is\/en\/vidar-the-whooper-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vi\u00f0ar the whooper swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whooper swan is staying at Reykjavik Park &amp; Zoo after his injuries were cared for. It is likely the swan injured itself in the bad weather earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00f0mundur Fylkisson, the spokesperson for Project Henry brought the swan to the zoo, where she got the care and time she needed to recover. Now the swan waits to be ready to fly away but he gets to decide that himself. It is thought that the bird is a male swan and he has been given the name Vi\u00f0ar.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6975 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar.jpg 960w, https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6977 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mu.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/alftin-vidar1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whooper swan is staying at Reykjavik Park &#038; Zoo after being rescued and rehabilitated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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