{"id":265207,"date":"2025-11-16T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265207\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:51:13","slug":"two-birds-of-prey-stolen-from-cornish-rescue-centre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265207\/","title":{"rendered":"Two birds of prey stolen from Cornish rescue centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Green and <\/p>\n<p>Lisa Young,South West<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762854847_857_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fa12e9c0-c185-11f0-be56-f12785bd2327.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC A composite image showing a Gyr Falcon and a Striated Caracara. The bird on the left of the image is brown\/grey and white and has a grey and black beak. The bird on the right has black feathers and a yellow and grey beak.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC<\/p>\n<p>The two birds of prey were stolen from the rescue centre in Winnards Perch, bosses said<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One of two birds of prey stolen from a rescue centre has been found, the owner of the centre has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Keepers at the Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC said a gyr falcon and a striated caracara were taken between 17:00 GMT on Thursday and 07:00 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The gyr falcon, also known as Arizona, was found at the side of the road opposite the layby at Winnards Perch, Cornwall, on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Kelly Grigg, the owner of the centre at Winnard&#8217;s Perch, said the bolt and padlock to one of its aviaries had been &#8220;hit with force&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762854847_857_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e22d5e20-c258-11f0-8c2a-4131c8785b96.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC A gyr falcon in grass.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC<\/p>\n<p>The gyr falcon, also known as Arizona, was found at the side of the road<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said she thought whoever had stolen the birds would have had to have known the centre &#8220;inside out&#8221;, as they avoided all CCTV cameras on site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Devon and Cornwall Police has appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a post to social media, the centre said it was grateful to everyone who had called to report seeing the gyr falcon and to the cars &#8220;that came to a stand still&#8221; so they could cross the road to catch it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762854847_857_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fe769d70-af7b-11f0-8cf5-47a716327516.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A woman stands in front of a wooden enclosure at a Bird of Prey visitor attraction. Nets form the walls of the enclosure, which contains two Great Grey Owls. One owl is just visible in the background, sitting on a perch. The woman is wearing a patterned black and white scarf.  \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Grigg, from the Cornish Bird of Prey Centre, said two birds, called Arizona and Casper, had been stolen<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Grigg said she noticed the gate was open to one of the aviaries when she started doing her daily checks on Friday morning &#8211; which is when she realised two birds were missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said another lock appeared to have been tampered with &#8220;using a crowbar or similar tool&#8221;, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;All I want is the birds back safe and sound and I will do everything in my power to get them home safely,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Green and Lisa Young,South West Cornish Birds of Prey Centre CIC The two birds of prey were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-265207","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\/265207","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=265207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}