The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has launched an investigation and an appeal for information after a Peregrine was found with gunshot injuries in County Tyrone.
The Peregrine was found in a garden on Station Road, Strabane on the evening of Friday 9th January 2026. According to an article on the BBC News website, the PSNI said it was found with a leg injury and that ‘the injury was consistent with a bullet wound, which would require specialist treatment‘.
I doubt very much whether it’s a ‘bullet’ injury – it would have taken the bird’s whole leg off – much more likely to have been caused by a shotgun or an air rifle, or perhaps a catapult. Without seeing an x-ray it’s difficult to know.
According to my sources the Peregrine has a broken leg and is currently receiving expert care from an experienced wildlife rehabilitator.
Raptor Persecution UK 
I will dare take a bet it’s some sick probably young individual who does this this for tick tock “kicks” because of location. It’s long overdue that serious discipline was brought back and enforced irrespective of age and the nanny penny too your, didnt know type of excuses were totally abolished and null and void.
Or perhaps pigeon fanciers, known for their persecution of peregrines?