{"id":379375,"date":"2026-01-20T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:13:09","slug":"satellite-tagged-hen-harrier-pete-disappears-in-cumbria-raptor-persecution-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379375\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier \u2018Pete\u2019 disappears in Cumbria \u2013 Raptor Persecution UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named \u2018Pete\u2019 has \u2018disappeared\u2019 in Cumbria, according to a Natural England spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p>Pete was tagged as a nestling in Cumbria in 2021 (Tag #213843). He established a home range in SW Scotland and returned there each spring after wintering in France.<\/p>\n<p>His tag stopped transmitting on 1st May 2025 after returning once again from France, with the last known transmission given at grid ref NY309418.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I haven\u2019t seen any publicity about the disappearance of this tagged Hen Harrier. His details were quietly added to the Natural England spreadsheet when last updated in October 2025. In the notes section it states, \u2018ground search unsuccessful ongoing\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be writing about another tagged Hen Harrier shortly and then I really must update <a href=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/2025\/07\/24\/143-hen-harriers-confirmed-missing-or-illegally-killed-in-uk-since-2018-most-of-them-on-or-close-to-grouse-moors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the list of missing\/killed Hen Harriers<\/a>, because it\u2019s been a while\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named \u2018Pete\u2019 has \u2018disappeared\u2019 in Cumbria, according to a Natural England spreadsheet. Pete was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-379375","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\/379375","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=379375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}