Forest of Bowland the flight of a Pallid Harrier during a setting sun.

 

Here we see England’s only migrant Pallid Harrier quartering moorland in the Dunsop Valley filmed from the official Harrier viewpoint in the Forest of Bowland last night at 7.30pm, 10/05/2017. Just as the evening sun was setting over Bowland’s moorland landscape our camera captured the beauty and dexterity of a Pallid Harriers hypnotic […]

May 11th, 2017 | Category: Ban Driven Grouse Shooting in England, Bird of Prey Persecution, Birds of prey, Forest of Bowland, gamekeepers, Grouse Moors, Grouse shooting, Hen Harriers, Pallid Harrier, Peregrines | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Scattering of black vulture observations in northern France attests to the species increase in the country

In the last few days black vultures have been observed in some unusual localities in northern France: Two individuals were seen at La Chapelle-sous-Uchon in Saône-et-Loire on the 3th of May, while another Black Vulture and two Griffons were seen in Audrehem in Pas-de-Calais two days earlier.

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May 11th, 2017 | Category: Black Vulture, Raptor Reintroduction | Comments are closed