{"id":311883,"date":"2025-12-12T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:40:08","slug":"green-light-for-new-peregrine-falcons-nesting-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311883\/","title":{"rendered":"Green light for new peregrine falcons nesting spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new home is being built in Market Harborough to encourage the world&#8217;s fastest animal to settle down and raise a family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pair of peregrine falcons &#8211; which can reach speeds of more than 300 km\/h (190 mph) &#8211; have for several years tried to breed at St Dionysius Church in the Leicestershire town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after their attempts failed due to a lack of a suitable nesting platform to provide shelter for their eggs and hatchlings, a site was proposed at Harborough District Council&#8217;s Symington Building as part of ongoing restoration works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A scheme was approved by the council&#8217;s planning committee unanimously on Wednesday, and work can now go ahead in time for the 2026 breeding season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new home is being built in Market Harborough to encourage the world&#8217;s fastest animal to settle down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-311883","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\/311883","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=311883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}