{"id":565891,"date":"2026-05-04T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:53:08","slug":"peregrine-falcon-chicks-hatch-in-university-of-leeds-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565891\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine falcon chicks hatch in University of Leeds nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Howroyd, biodiversity programme lead in the sustainability service at the university, said the eggs were laid on 21, 23, 26 and 28 March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatching of the first egg began at about 04:00 BST on 29 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The university said peregrine falcone chicks begin to fledge about 35 days later, becoming entirely independent after a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a peregrine falcon which fledged from this nest last year was now nesting in Lister Mills in Bradford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s great that our babies are having babies themselves and spreading out in Yorkshire,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Howroyd added the cameras received more than 250,000 views each year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the reason the peregrines capture so much attention is that they bring the outside inside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They give people the chance for a moment of connection with nature in the middle of their day.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Howroyd, biodiversity programme lead in the sustainability service at the university, said the eggs were laid on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-565891","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\/565891","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=565891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}