{"id":475157,"date":"2026-03-14T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:46:07","slug":"romsey-abbeys-peregrine-falcon-killed-by-vehicle-during-prey-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475157\/","title":{"rendered":"Romsey Abbey&#8217;s peregrine falcon killed by vehicle during prey dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A peregrine falcon that had recently begun settling on an abbey roof for the third year with its mate has died after being hit by a vehicle, a charity has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire Ornithological Society said the male from Romsey Abbey, thought to be about six years-old, was struck near the town on Thursday as it swooped to pick up its dropped prey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The peregrine and his mate settled at the abbey two years ago but their nest, the first known to be set up on the roof was ruined by rain. They nested on the side of the abbey in a gully last year and raised four chicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The society said there was a chance the female peregrine was already carrying eggs and would still lay them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peregrine falcon that had recently begun settling on an abbey roof for the third year with its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-475157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475157","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=475157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}