{"id":591986,"date":"2026-05-19T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:50:08","slug":"smaller-peregrine-falcon-chick-at-st-albans-cathedral-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591986\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller peregrine falcon chick at St Albans Cathedral dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A peregrine falcon chick that was the last to hatch at a cathedral has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said the fourth chick &#8220;could not get the food it needed&#8221;, but the other three seemed to be doing well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chick was alive on Friday &#8220;but it did not appear to survive the night&#8221;, the trust added, with the recent cold weather also possibly to blame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Boudica and Alban have proven to be very good parents, so hopefully the [others] will thrive,&#8221; said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peregrine falcon chick that was the last to hatch at a cathedral has died. The Herts and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-591986","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\/591986","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=591986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}