Photos of Trasgu before (up) and after (down) the incident © Boumort-Alinyà Working Team In November 2016, the last Black vulture settled in the region of Alinyà (Spanish Pyrenees) flew over his territory for the last time. His name was Trasgu, a 6-years-old male that was transferred from a rehabilitation center to the […]
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This rare peregrine behaviour shows a pair of urban peregrines doing what comes naturally. You are now unlikely to ever witness this behaviour on moorland in northern England where red grouse are shot because of wide scale illegal persecution of this species. If like us you care about stopping the ongoing killing of the peregrine […] A young Golden Eagle is reported missing by the RSPB after its satellite transmitter went off-line on the North Glenbuchat Estate near Strathdon. The eleven month old male golden eagle had been satellite-tagged by the Scottish Raptor Study Group but had stopped collecting data between March 5 and 6 this year. […] Primary school children will be taken on police-funded day trips to grouse shooting moors, run by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, it was announced earlier this month.
Red Grouse moor ablaze, Raptors missing from these moorland ecosystems throughout northern England. Tell this to the […] Photo: Dave Walker/BirdLife Cyprus The griffon vulture Gyps fulvus is the largest and arguably the most impressive bird species found on the island of Cyprus. As is sadly the case with many vulture species around the world, the population of griffons in Cyprus is in a bad way. The earliest […] Walkers managed to find a dead Peregrine Falcon by a footpath at Newbiggin next to Croglin estate where numerous birds of prey have previously gone missing. Amazingly the dead Peregrine was found close to where a BTO ringed Hen Harrier was also found. The Harrier had flown all the way from the Isle of […] North Yorks Police are appealing for information after a red kite was found dead in Nidderdale. On the afternoon of Saturday 11 March, a dead red kite was found near Greenhow, in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire. […]
We have recently received the above photos from our colleague Tulsi Subedi, who is researching bearded vultures in the Himalayas. Tulsi had seen this brutal picture posted in social media last December. The photo was taken in Bajura district, in far-western remote mountainous area of Nepal. […] Following the a proposal that yet another trap was to be brought to Britain to kill unwanted species regarded as vermin by the shooting industry, we have attached below the response from DEFRA about this new device and its potential use. Their response is below […] Yes there can be no doubts the laws designed to protect our so called ‘Protected’ raptors are not worth the paper they are written upon. We are reporting today that another peregrine, this time an immature female, was found injured with a shot gun pellet lodged in her right shoulder (see attached x-ray) recovered […] |
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