Urban peregrines nesting on cathedrals, office buildings, and power stations face unique welfare challenges from human disturbance, window strikes, and prey contamination.
Peregrine chicks that fall from narrow urban ledges before fledging suffer acute injury from falls onto pavements, gutters, or car park roofs. Adults feeding on rodenticide-contaminated feral pigeons accumulate anticoagulant compounds in their tissues. Deliberate egg destruction or nest interference at urban sites causes acute welfare harm and is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Chicks rescued and hand-raised without appropriate wild imprinting have reduced prospects for successful wild release.