An osprey from a Powys breeding
programme has returned to its nest, becoming its first to be re-sighted in the
UK, a wildlife trust has said.
Clarach landed in Glaslyn,
Snowdonia, on Tuesday.
Welshpool-based Montgomeryshire
Wildlife Trust said she was the first chick from the Dyfi Osprey Project to be
seen again as an adult.
The organisation said:
"We've witnessed another milestone in the developing story of Welsh osprey
recolonisation."
Clarach
was born in 2013 and migrated in September that year.
Emyr Evans, Dyfi Osprey Project
manager, said: "When they're chicks they migrate, mostly to Africa, and
they stay there for two or three years. Then they come back, but two thirds
usually die on the journey.
"It's an enormous task and
challenge to try and find the birds, but what happened yesterday is that one of
our adults was re-sighted as an adult back in Wales. This is the first time any
of the Dyfi birds have been re-sighted back as adults."
It is not known if Clarach came
back to Wales last year, but was not recorded.
A blog post on the Dyfi Osprey
Project's website called this "the
promised land"and apologised to any visitors on Tuesday who
"may have encountered crying, shouting and hysterical volunteers".
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