{"id":639820,"date":"2026-06-15T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639820\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:36:05","slug":"young-peregrine-falcon-fledges-nest-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639820\/","title":{"rendered":"Young peregrine falcon fledges nest too early"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young peregrine falcon has been rehomed after fledging the nest too early “on multiple occasions”.<\/p>\n

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital said people monitoring a nesting couple at Leicester Cathedral had noticed the juvenile bird – known as 4BB – leaving early “due to a male peregrine disturbing the nest”.<\/p>\n

Team members at the hospital stepped in to help 4BB, who is now being looked after “until she is ready for release back into the wild”.<\/p>\n

Peregrine falcons have been breeding at the cathedral since 2017, with this year’s first egg laid on Mothering Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young peregrine falcon has been rehomed after fledging the nest too early “on multiple occasions”. Leicestershire Wildlife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-639820","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\/639820","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=639820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}