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As well as a small metal ring, the volunteers put a larger, plastic ring on the birds legs, which can be easily spotted by birdwatchers, allowing for easier tracing. <\/p>\n

Ben Dolan, from the West Midlands Ringing Group, says putting on the rings while they are are chicks is easier as they stay calm – with adults much easier to catch.<\/p>\n

Finding peregrines in urban areas is now very common, external<\/a>, as the group said tall buildings often provide a secure spot for breeding.<\/p>\n

In Stafford, the birds have a nesting box, and a camera to monitor their movements, provided by the building’s maintenance company CBRE.<\/p>\n

According to the British Trust for Ornithology, birds ringed in the UK have been recorded as far afield as Morocco., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“We are able to see that we’ve now got breeding pairs in Liverpool or Halifax,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The chicks have gone from here, the parents have done a fantastic job, the birds have fledged, travelled, they’ve learned how to fly, learned how to hunt, they’ve travelled all around the world and now they’re the parents. It’s fantastic.”<\/p>\n

But Dolan said, many return to their birthplace and take over the nest they were born in. <\/p>\n

These birds are expected to fly their nest in August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as a small metal ring, the volunteers put a larger, plastic ring on the birds legs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-590808","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\/590808","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=590808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}