{"id":580648,"date":"2026-05-12T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580648\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:05:11","slug":"cathedral-peregrine-falcons-welcome-new-chicks-after-nest-destroyed-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580648\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathedral peregrine falcons welcome new chicks after nest destroyed | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/st-albans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Albans<\/a> Cathedral has announced the arrival of four peregrine falcon chicks after eggs were destroyed last year.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the chicks hatched on Saturday (9 May) with the fourth arriving the following Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newest chick is noticeably smaller than its older siblings already, and will have some catching up to do&#8230; All four chicks are being well fed by their busy parents,&#8221; the cathedral wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The CPS previously announced that no further action would be taken after three eggs were destroyed in the nest in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Albans Cathedral has announced the arrival of four peregrine falcon chicks after eggs were destroyed last year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[198516,198515,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-580648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-optamatchid2569312","tag-optauuidnia3hmwa7nax7x35ruriltec","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580648","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=580648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}