{"id":568884,"date":"2026-05-06T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568884\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:56:07","slug":"woking-peregrine-project-sees-first-chicks-of-2026-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568884\/","title":{"rendered":"Woking Peregrine Project sees first chicks of 2026 hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denford added that, while they hoped all five eggs would hatch, often the final egg did not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birds&#8217; nest box is also fitted with a webcam, and visitors to the Woking Peregrine Project website can watch a live stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The box was first installed in Export House in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peregrine falcon populations in the UK neared extinction in the 1960s due to human persecution and pesticides in their food chain. However, improved legislation and protection helped the birds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite peregrines historically living on cliffs, tall buildings also make an ideal nesting place, and the population has expanded to urban areas including large office buildings and churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denford added that, while they hoped all five eggs would hatch, often the final egg did not. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-568884","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\/568884","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=568884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}