As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday 4 July 2019

Scottish government urged to regulate grouse moors after golden eagles vanish


Call to outlaw intensive grouse shooting after disappearance of two juvenile eagles
Severin Carrell Scotland editor
Mon 1 Jul 2019 13.33 BST Last modified on Mon 1 Jul 2019 20.25 BST
Conservationists have urged the Scottish government to regulate grouse moors after two golden eagles disappeared within hours of each other on a shooting estate in Perthshire.
The two juvenile eagles were fitted with satellite tags which abruptly stopped sending out signals on 18 April – the latest of a spate of cases where birds of prey have disappeared or been found dead in the same area of Perthshire, known as Strathbraan, near Dunkeld.
One of the eagles was tagged last year by Andy Wightman, a Scottish Green party MSP who is the golden eagle “species champion” in Scotland, as part of a bird of prey conservation project led by the broadcaster Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay, who blogs for Raptor Persecution UK.
Wightman had named the bird Adam after the revered Scottish mountain ecologist Adam Watson, who died in January this year.
Wightman, an expert on land reform, said the eagle’s disappearance had left him distraught and he had written to Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, asking her to outlaw intensive grouse shooting.

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