{"id":286015,"date":"2025-11-27T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:18:07","slug":"warning-that-cairngorms-national-parks-peregrine-falcons-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286015\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning that Cairngorms National Park&#8217;s peregrine falcons in decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct73fv\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peregrines are the fastest animals on Earth<\/a> and can reach speeds of more than 200mph when they dive on prey, such as pigeons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sarah Henshall, head of conservation at the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA), said the study painted a &#8220;bleak picture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the authority would work closely with bird of prey study groups, estates and other experts on researching the falcons&#8217; behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GPS tagging birds could also be used to help tackle wildlife crime, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish Land and Estates said landowners and rural workers were committed to bird of prey conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ross Ewing, director of moorland and strategic projects, said avian flu and harsh weather posed threats to peregrines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The reported decline in the peregrine population within the Cairngorms National Park is concerning and reflects a wider trend observed in the Scotland and UK-wide populations over the last three decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peregrines are the fastest animals on Earth and can reach speeds of more than 200mph when they dive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-286015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286015","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=286015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}