{"id":519028,"date":"2026-04-08T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:29:07","slug":"peregrine-falcon-rescued-from-roof-garden-of-london-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519028\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine falcon rescued from roof garden of London skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A peregrine falcon has been rescued after getting stuck on the 75th floor of a London skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Essex Wildlife Hospital was called to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/southessexwildlife\/posts\/pfbid02WN1ARyTFr4y6dBYn6PLp7bF8cgybJABm9WsVXRcJfCduZa58AEXqBvg8RWZaT1htl\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">residential building, external<\/a> in Canary Wharf, London, to retrieve the female bird, which was found &#8220;smashing itself against the glass&#8221; after flying into a roof garden on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once the falcon had been caught in a towel, it was rushed back to the Orsett-based hospital, where it was examined and had an X-ray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sue Schwar, the hospital&#8217;s founder, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve put her in our big flight aviary. She does need a bit of time. She&#8217;s not 100%, but as soon as she&#8217;s ready we&#8217;ve absolutely definitely got to get her back up into the sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peregrine falcon has been rescued after getting stuck on the 75th floor of a London skyscraper. South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-519028","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\/519028","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=519028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}