{"id":382690,"date":"2026-01-21T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:36:09","slug":"runaway-peacock-dave-becomes-squawk-of-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382690\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway peacock Dave becomes squawk of the village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A peacock that ran away to a new village and evaded capture for several weeks has become an unlikely social media star. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dave the peacock left his home in Claybrooke Magna, Leicestershire, early in December and an appeal to help find him led to a number of sightings four miles away in Broughton Astley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While he was on the run, Dave endeared himself to people in Broughton Astley, who set up a dedicated Facebook group, The Dave Diary, and a TikTok account, called Only Dave&#8217;s Fans, which chronicled his adventures and various sightings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owner Alex Robinson finally recaptured Dave on Tuesday &#8211; but said he had &#8220;clearly&#8221; been kept well-fed while he was at large in the neighbouring village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peacock that ran away to a new village and evaded capture for several weeks has become an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-382690","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\/382690","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=382690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}