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, […]

  A young male Hen Harrier named Fingal, has become the latest satellite tagged bird to disappear in Scotland. The young bird hatched from a nest in the Scottish Borders in summer 2019, and was fitted with a lightweight satellite tag as part of the EU Hen Harrier LIFE project which has allowed scientists to […]

Dryad, a male hen harrier, hatched at a nest in the Forest of Bowland this summer. He was fitted with a lightweight satellite tag so that scientists could trace his movements once he fledged. But Dryad barely had time to spread his wings before his tag, which had been transmitting normally, stopped suddenly and unexpectedly […]

Police have condemned the ‘despicable’ shooter who killed a rare peregrine falcon in the Cotswolds. The ‘iconic bird of prey’, a protected species, was found dead near Northleach on Aug 16th 2020 but details have only just been released. The bird is believed to have been blasted with a shotgun. The Gloucestershire Police rural crime […]

POLICE are investigating the death of a peregrine falcon after it was ‘shot with a pellet gun’. Police were called to Bingley Three Rise Locks around 2.22pm on 11th August 2020 by a number of passers-by and the lock keeper. After initial inspection, it was determined the bird had been shot with a pellet gun and […]

A rare eagle which was found dead in Aberdeenshire had been poisoned, police have confirmed. Officers said they are treating the death of the white-tailed sea eagle as suspicious. Its corpse was recovered from Donside, Aberdeenshire, in April, and a post-mortem examination has now established it died from pesticide poisoning. The raptors were reintroduced into […]

The buzzard as it was found. (Photo courtesy of RSPB) North Yorkshire Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after a dead buzzard was found on Live Moor close to the village of Swainby. The bird was discovered by a member of the public on 20 March 2020 and reported to the RSPB before […]

  Concern is growing for a missing golden eagle which vanished in an a area of Perthshire known as a persecution hotspot for birds of prey.   The eagle’s tracking device stopped transmitting while it was roosting around Loch Tay, in the Strathbraan area. It is the latest in a long line of similar disappearances, […]