White Tailed Sea Eagles, IOW
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Different island but maybe just as important for both the species and the locals on IOW and beyond.
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Just seen this on AOL, great news .
"A hidden camera has captured the first live UK footage of a wild white-tailed eagle hatching. Staff at RSPB Scotland’s Abernethy nature reserve in Perthshire, where the eaglet hatched, described it as being “such a special moment”. It comes after eggs were first spotted in a nest being used by eagles Shona and Finn early in March.
The nest’s location remains secret, to avoid the birds being disturbed, but after both eagles took turns incubating the eggs and protecting them from the snow and recent storms, RSPB Scotland confirmed the first egg had hatched at 1943 on April 8.
A camera, which has been hidden in a stick three metres away from the nest to avoid disturbing the birds, captured the moment – with images of the eaglet emerging being beamed live to the Loch Garten Nature Centre in Abernethy.
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Another update on the Roy Dennis web site on the journeys of one of the IOW White Tailed Eagles.
https://www.roydennis.org/category/latest-news/
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Another update from Roy Dennis which makes interesting reading. This could well be included in the Reintroduction thread too.
https://www.roydennis.org/category/latest-news/
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Don’t know if this poisoned White Tailed Sea Eagle was one of the IofW project but yet another appalling example of persecution. Could also be posted in the raptor persecution thread. When will this end?
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The only way to stop it is putting the landowner in the dock alongside the gamekeepers and passing custodial sentences. Exactly the same principle applies to the CEOs of the Water Companies and those other companies polluting the waterways.
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Fantastic news and video here related to the IoW WTEs.
Every small step helps!
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Grand video, micky, thanks.
The latest update from the Roy Dennis Foundation is from January this year, and can be found here
https://www.roydennis.org/category/sea-eagle/isle-of-wight-sea-eagles/
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No conflict with livestock and pets are reported in the latest data, nellie. Research also showed that surprisingly cuttlefish were a part of their diet. Plenty of mullet and bass too.
Many opponents used conflict and lack of food as major obstacles to this reintroduction and fought to stop it, thankfully they failed. I’m currently on the Incleborough site visiting the reserves. This visit reminds me of the efforts made a decade or more ago to reintroduce WTE to the North Norfolk coast. Unfortunately a misguided campaign by the few knocked that on the head. Maybe this success on the IoW will help spread the belief, counter the misinformation the knowledge and, of course the birds.
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Amazing news. A pair of translocated Eagles have bred and fledged the first WTE in 240 years in England. A great success for the project!
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Not the IoW but this is absolutely brilliant news. Let’s hope with all the bad news currently about , what with the persecution, the AI that this young bird goes on to have chicks of its own here in England. 🤞http://links.forestrycommission.mkt4591.com/servlet/MailView?ms=Mjg1NDkzNTUS1&r=ODA1NTgzODQzNTY2S0&j=MjUyMDYwMDkzOQS2&mt=1&rt=0
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Great news, micky. Hope that the chick survives and goes on to be one half of a breeding pair in years to come.
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Some wonderful news here!
And some said it couldn’t be done! Let’s hope for more of the same next year!
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You’re welcome, it is only an update but what a fabulous and rather unexpected development. Some said it was impossible, they claimed our country was too highly populated and industrialised but yet these birds have flourished like those in several other similar settings around Europe and beyond where they have been given a chance, how wrong were those detractors! Go WTEs!
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The latest update concerning the South coast birds :-
https://www.roydennis.org/category/latest-news/
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One has been seen around Meirionnydd this afternoon. Since the IOW project started they are now turning up all around the UK. Juveniles like to wander around. I remember Iolo advising us that they could turn up anywhere and to look skyward for a flying barndoor. Brilliant news.
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The bird seems to be hanging around, still being seen this evening! Unfortunately some locals have reservations about its spectacular presence and are not happy..
Let’s hope it’s left alone safe to do things that White Tailed Eagles do naturally.
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