{"id":455337,"date":"2026-03-03T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:53:07","slug":"peregrine-falcon-exhibition-to-land-at-lincoln-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455337\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine falcon exhibition to land at Lincoln Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Records dating back to the 1920s show peregrines nesting at the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birds of prey, which choose to nest in tall buildings as they mimic natural cliffs or mountains, were formerly listed as endangered after almost dying out in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was due to the impact of insecticides entering the food chain and causing issues with their ability to lay eggs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wooden nest box the chicks were born in was installed in the 1980s by Norman Bonner, a former head carpenter at the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People can visit the exhibition during the cathedral&#8217;s opening hours by paying a general admission cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records dating back to the 1920s show peregrines nesting at the cathedral. The birds of prey, which choose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-455337","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\/455337","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=455337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}