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| Peregrine, this bird on a Lincolnshire beach, reflects on its next meal of the day |
CITY-nesting peregrines adjusted their feeding behaviour during Covid lockdown according to a scientific paper published today.
Academics at universities in London and Bristol compared the prey of city birds with their rural counterparts to establish whether there had been any feeding changes during lockdown between the years 2020 and 2022.
It seems that there was little change in rural locations, but, in cities such as London, the falcons partly switched from feral pigeons to starlings and ring-necked parakeets.
The authors of the paper attribute this to a decline in the pigeon populations of cities because there were fewer people about to feed them scraps.
The paper, which is published in the British Ecological Society journal People and Nature, can be read in full at:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pan3.10445
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