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, […]

  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 […]