25/06/2018
A blast from the horn of
the Rutland Belle, as she set sail at Rutland Water last week, marked the
official launch of the Osprey Leadership Foundation – a trans-border
conservation initiative conceived by Tim Mackrill as long ago as 2011.
More than 60 people on board, at
this most apt venue, were treated to the sight of at least two different
fishing Western Ospreys, while Tim ran through the establishment of
the foundation, its aims and its objectives.
Tim Mackrill is best known for
having led the Rutland Osprey Project for more than a decade. Having begun as a
schoolboy volunteer, he was appointed Project Officer in 2006 before completing
a PhD on the complexities of Osprey migration in 2016. During this period, he
wrote The Rutland Water Ospreys (Bloomsbury 2013) and is currently
compiling two new osprey titles for Bloomsbury, including a full-length monograph
in the Poyser series.
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