22nd May
Police and the RSPB are appealing
for information following the disappearance of three protected,
satellite-tagged hen harriers in Scotland and Cumbria.
After monitoring her progress
since she fledged last June, a hen harrier named Saorsa suddenly ceased sending
transmissions in February 2018 whilst located in the Angus Glens, Scotland. She
has not been seen or heard of since.
A male bird, named Blue, then
raised concerns in March this year when his tag, which had also been
functioning perfectly, suddenly and inexplicably cut out near Longsleddale,
South Lanarkshire.
In the same month, a tagged bird
named Finn – after young conservationist Findlay Wilde – vanished near Moffat,
Scotland. Finn was tagged as a chick in 2016 from a nest in Northumberland, one
of only three hen harrier nests to fledge young in the whole of England that
year.
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