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Alan Fielding
Some bird of prey stuff
Coming soon (or possibly much later)- bird of prey related content.
Birds of Prey
Coming soon....
In the meantime you can read some of my jointly authored reports completed for Scottish Natural Heritage. First is a 2009 report which reviews the progress of Irish golden eagle reintroduction programme (pdf file 1,399 Kb). Second there is an earlier (and large) report setting out the national conservation framework for golden eagles. A 2008 SNH press release said "A new report has confirmed that some parts of Scotland no longer have viable populations of native golden eagles despite having the ideal habitat conditions for the species to thrive. A newly published Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) report concludes that there is clear evidence of the eagles' decline in areas where there still appears to be use of illegal poisoned baits." The report (pdf file, 1,266 Kb) can be downloaded from http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/commissioned_reports/Report%20No193.pdf.
A copy our presentation to the SNH 'Sharing Good Practice' workshop on wind farm cumulative impact assessment can be downloaded from http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/sgp/A325037.pdf. The full set of presentations is also available (follow the link tot he archived site).
Coming soon (well sometime in the future) .... population models for various birds of prey, background to collision risk modelling (for wind farms) and more...
Featured Website: The Irish Reintroduction Programmes
There are on going release programmes to build self-sustaining populations of golden eagle, white-tailed eagle and red kites in Ireland. Sadly, one of the two birds fledged in 2009 was "..poisoned by Nitroxynil poured over the fleece of a dead newborn or aborted lamb..." Find out more from the news article on the reintroduction web pages.
Featured Place: The island of Mull
The island of Mull is one of the best places in Britain and Europe if you want to see birds of prey: golden and white-tailed eagles, hen harriers, buzzards, kestrels, sparrowhawks plus, rarely, peregrine falcons and merlin. There is also a good owl fauna.
Yet another eagle found posioned on a Scottish Estate. See a BBC story for details and for a police map of poisoning incidents.
Irish golden eagle success.
The Irish Golden Eagle re-introduction programme has seen its 2nd and 3rd golden eagle chicks fledged in wild.