{"id":405484,"date":"2026-01-11T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T04:10:08","slug":"police-investigating-shooting-of-peregrine-falcon-in-strabane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/405484\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating shooting of peregrine falcon in Strabane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An investigation has been launched after a peregrine falcon was found injured in County Tyrone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The bird of prey was found with a leg injury in the garden of a property in Station Road, Strabane, on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the injury was consistent with a bullet wound, which would require specialist treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Birds of prey in Northern Ireland are protected by legislation, and it is against the law to intentionally or recklessly kill, injure or take any wild bird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The PSNI said it took &#8220;all wildlife crime very seriously \u2013 and we&#8217;re grateful to this member of the public for raising the alarm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We are appealing to anyone who has information about what may have happened to this protected bird&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Peregrines are the fastest animals on Earth and can reach speeds of more than 200mph (322km\/hr) when they dive on prey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is the UK&#8217;s biggest falcon and the RSPB says the peregrine population was at a low point in the 1960s due to human persecution and the impact of pesticides in the food chain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Improved legislation and protection has helped the birds to recover and they have now expanded into many urban areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation has been launched after a peregrine falcon was found injured in County Tyrone. The bird of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-405484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}