{"id":565351,"date":"2026-05-04T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:07:08","slug":"beverley-minster-has-fingers-crossed-for-peregrine-falcon-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565351\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverley Minster has fingers crossed for peregrine falcon chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of Britain&#8217;s largest parish churches could welcome new arrivals this summer in the form of peregrine falcon chicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials at Beverley Minster said they were keeping their &#8220;fingers crossed&#8221; after two falcons settled in one of the towers for only the second time in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rev Canon Jonathan Baker, vicar at the minster, said: &#8220;We can encourage them by putting in a nesting box, but it&#8217;s up to them to decide where is the most suitable place to nest. It&#8217;s all quite exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the RSPB said: &#8220;People visiting Beverley will be in for a treat this summer if they can successfully raise a family in the minster.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Britain&#8217;s largest parish churches could welcome new arrivals this summer in the form of peregrine falcon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-565351","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\/565351","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=565351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}