{"id":242722,"date":"2025-11-04T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242722\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:20:08","slug":"peregrine-falcon-chicks-poisoned-worcester-cathedral-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242722\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine falcon chicks poisoned, Worcester Cathedral says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two of the dead chicks were recovered by the Peregrine Falcons in Worcester team and sent to a laboratory for analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The post-mortems showed the birds&#8217; cause of death was down to ingesting poison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Dobbs, the cathedral&#8217;s biodiversity adviser said the results would be shared with the wildlife unit at West Mercia Police as well as the British Trust for Ornithology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because the nest had been under the microscope, &#8220;you see the good and the bad,&#8221; said Mr Dobbs, reflecting on the deaths of the chicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not a good thing to happen, but it does happen, so hopefully it won&#8217;t again, and we&#8217;ll have a nice normal year next time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the dead chicks were recovered by the Peregrine Falcons in Worcester team and sent to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-242722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}