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The wording of the Eagle Protection Act could not be any clearer. It “prohibits anyone, without a permit issued by the Secretary of the Interior,” from “taking” bald or golden eagles. The law defines “take” as “pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb.” [...] Walking on Mull’s moors in early spring was very different to what I am used to in previous years as instead of splashing and squelching my way around the landscapes I was crunching my way through the bone dry, crisp vegetation. There was no sign of the usual dramatic waterfalls powering down around the isle [...] The RSPB is calling for all wind farms to monitor bird deaths to work out if the turbines are killing rare species such as golden eagles. Some conservationists fear a “massacre” of eagles if more is not done to stop turbines being built in the wrong places. At the moment there are no figures on [...] Dozens of golden eagle eyries containing eggs and other rare bird nests may have been destroyed in Highland wildfires over the Easter weekend, experts warned. RSPB Scotland said it was seriously concerned about the impact on the species, which nests in open moorland. Can it be just coincidental so many moorland fires have been set [...] It’s always nice to publish a raptor story with a fairy tail ending, a rare event these days. We have already published one Golden Eagle Article together with the image of the month (Pair of Golden Eagles feeding on dead fox, March 2013 detailing efforts inside the Czech Republic to reintroduce the Golden Eagle back [...] Raptor Politics always welcomes images of raptors, especially when photographed under extreme and unusual conditions. Today we are very fortunate to have been sent one of the finest images taken of a pair of Golden Eagles feeding together in the Beskydy mountains (Czech Republic) on the carcass of a dead fox. The superb image was [...] Our friend Otakar Zavalsky, involved in efforts to reintroduce golden eagles back into their former home range inside the Czech Republic, has just sent this inspiring video clip captured this week in the Beskydy mountains of northern Moravia. The short clip shows both adult birds, originally donated by Slovakia, flying within their territory where [...] In January the BBC One Show broadcast an illuminating interview with two of Scotland’s most respected Golden Eagle experts, Brian Etheridge and Stuart Benn, both well know RSPB scientific field workers involved in the ecology of raptors throughout the Highlands. [...] The dead eagle was found with broken legs under a tree near a lay-by in Aberdeenshire Claims that a golden eagle found dead in Royal Deeside in May 2012 had been left to die in a lay-by after being injured in a trap else where have been rejected by the representatives of the Scottish [...] |
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