{"id":364764,"date":"2026-01-11T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364764\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:11:07","slug":"peregrine-found-with-gunshot-injuries-police-appeal-for-information-raptor-persecution-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364764\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine found with gunshot injuries \u2013 police appeal for information \u2013 Raptor Persecution UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has launched an investigation and an appeal for information after a Peregrine was found with gunshot injuries in County Tyrone.<\/p>\n<p>The Peregrine was found in a garden on Station Road, Strabane on the evening of Friday 9th January 2026. According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn8j0j8k9zko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">article<\/a> on the BBC News website, the PSNI said it was found with a leg injury and that \u2018the injury was consistent with a bullet wound, which would require specialist treatment\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt very much whether it\u2019s a \u2018bullet\u2019 injury \u2013 it would have taken the bird\u2019s whole leg off \u2013 much more likely to have been caused by a shotgun or an air rifle, or perhaps a catapult. Without seeing an x-ray it\u2019s difficult to know.<\/p>\n<p>According to my sources the Peregrine has a broken leg and is currently receiving expert care from an experienced wildlife rehabilitator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has launched an investigation and an appeal for information after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-364764","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\/364764","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=364764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}