30 JAN
A hen
harrier that Scottish antis said had been killed by gamekeepers was found alive
and well last week.
Now
gamekeepers want a crackdown on satellite tagging after the RSPB spotted the
bird in Perthshire.
According
to a report in the Daily
Telegraph, the RSPB said nothing about spotting it alive, even
though the organisation made a great deal of eporting its apparent
disappearance in 2018.
In
addition, a farmer found a dead sea eagle with a tag that had failed several
weeks previously and was already on a list of birds “Missing believed
persecuted”.
The
Scottish Gamekeepers’ Association now wants the satellite tagging of birds to
be licensed by the Scottish Government and some gamekeepers claim that
cumbersome tags are what are killing hen harriers.
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