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 […]

  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, […]

The goshawk seen in the cage trap North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information about an incident in which a goshawk appeared to be killed after becoming caught in a cage trap. Video footage, which was passed on to North Yorkshire Police, shows the bird becoming caught in the trap in the early hours of […]

The female buzzard North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information after a female buzzard was discovered shot near Appleton le Moors on Sunday 5 July. The bird was found suffering multiple injuries in woods just off Hamley Lane, Appleton le Moors by a member of the public. Although the buzzard received immediate veterinary treatment, she […]

RSPB Scotland found satellite tracking devices attached to a pair of hen harriers both stopped transmitting in April 2020. The organisation had been following two males fledged in 2018 – Marlin, from Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire, and Hoolie from Easter Ross. Marlin flew south and spent the last two winters in North Yorkshire, while […]

Eggs from peregrine falcon nests at three different sites in the Peak District were taken in early spring, Derbyshire Police has revealed. The force said there could be a number of individuals or groups responsible as part of a “black market trade”. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust said the eggs may have been removed while volunteers – […]

Greater Manchester Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after a buzzard was found shot near Diggle, in the Peak District National Park, on May 11. A member of the public found the bird dying on the ground and contacted the RSPB. However it had to be euthanised by a vet the next morning […]

North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information after five dead buzzards were found hidden in a hole in the ground on land below Fox Hole Crag, on the edge of Bransdale in the North York Moors. An x-ray showing one of the buzzards containing pieces of shot Following information reported to the police in April […]