Police are urging people to protect wildlife across Yorkshire during the country’s third national lockdown following a spate of incidents. West Yorkshire Police has already recorded three fatal shootings of kestrels in the first week of January alone, compared to just one in the whole of 2020. Two offences took place in Huddersfield and one […]

Police Scotland has confirmed that a red kite found dead in the Ruthven area in October, had been poisoned with a banned pesticide. Further searches were carried out on 15 December 2020 with partner agency RSPB on hill ground near Meall a’ Bhreacraibh and Ruthven, Moy, in the northern Monadliath mountains. No further poisoned raptors […]

North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information after a red kite was found poisoned in woodland near the A64 between Scampston and Rillington. The bird was found in April 2020 and immediately taken to a vet but unfortunately was in such terrible condition that the decision was made to put it to sleep. Results have […]

  On 17th November 2020, a warrant was executed at a property in Barnsley in connection to the poisoning of a protected wild bird. In October, officers appealed for help in finding those responsible for poisoning a juvenile peregrine falcon in the Fish Dam area of Barnsley. Intelligence from the public assisted officers from the […]

  A man has been charged with theft in connection with an incident in the spring where Peregrine Falcon eggs were allegedly stolen in the Peak District. John Fenton, of Bridgemont, Whaley Bridge, was charged with the offence following an investigation by the Derbyshire Rural Crime Team and work by the RSPB. It follows an […]

Bird of prey shot with air gun and left seriously injured in Scunthorpe WARNING: Contains graphic images A bird of prey has been shot with an air gun and left seriously injured in Scunthorpe.The sparrowhawk tried to fly to safety after the incident on Wednesday 11th November 2020 – but sadly crashed into a car […]

North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information following investigations into the death of two peregrine falcons found at a quarry near Stutton, Tadcaster. A member of the public who had been observing the mating pair of birds, found a male bird dead on a cliff ledge and following investigation by the RSPB and North Yorkshire […]

Officers investigating reports of a bird of prey being deliberately poisoned are appealing for your help to find those responsible.   On Saturday 4 July officers found a juvenile peregrine falcon in ill health in the Fish Dam Lane area of Barnsley, the bird sadly died a short time later. Initial assessment of the bird […]

The Royal Society for the protection of birds has condemned the illegal shooting of a buzzard at a reserve in Rochester on 10th October 2020. The buzzard was in flight, on land adjoining the south-west boundary of the RSPB’s Northward Hill reserve, near High Halstow, when it was shot out of the sky. One onlooker, […]