{"id":506737,"date":"2026-04-01T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:17:08","slug":"pershore-abbey-welcomes-its-first-peregrine-falcon-eggs-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506737\/","title":{"rendered":"Pershore Abbey welcomes its first peregrine falcon eggs of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a different story at Worcester Cathedral, with no eggs yet laid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Dobbs, biodiversity advisor at Worcester Cathedral, described 2026 as &#8220;very disappointing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have had fabulous years in the past with four straight years of maximum clutch sizes and all the fledglings being ringed,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a wonderful few years but of course it is the natural world and things can go wrong and be different.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dobbs said the female was unlikely to use the cathedral&#8217;s box this year due to &#8220;several reasons&#8221;, which could include the birds associating the area with negative memories after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c15p7y5gedxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year&#8217;s poisoning<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2025, three peregrine chicks were born on site but all three died. An autopsy later revealed that two or the three chicks had been poisoned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The matter was referred to West Mercia Police but the case was later closed because of &#8220;evidential difficulties&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other reasons could include the animals taking a break in the breeding cycle or possibly because the female is too old now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a different story at Worcester Cathedral, with no eggs yet laid. Chris Dobbs, biodiversity advisor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-506737","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\/506737","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=506737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}