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The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin View image in fullscreen The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitte…

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The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin View image in fullscreen The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitted with a satellite tracker disappear in prime grouse-shooting country? The six police officers arrived at the Snilesworth estate in two pickup trucks last week, according to one account. They asked to go up on the moors, a source said, and “so off they went”. A vast expanse of spectacularly undulating lands on the western edge of the North York Moors, Snilesworth is globally renowned for its grouse, partridge and pheasant shooting. It is known locally for attracting “rich people from London in helicopters and blacked-out SUVs”. This time, though, it was another rarified flying visitor that had drawn the police’s interest: the North York Moors are at the centre of a mystery surrounding a missing bird of prey. The officers, representing the national wildlife crime unit and North Yorkshire police, were seeking clues to the whereabouts of a white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, and more colloquially called the ‘flying barn door’, due to a 2.5-metre wingspan that makes them the UK’s largest raptor. Little appears to have been found in the copse that is said to have been the focus of the officers’ attentions. But enough apparently worried them about the circumstances surrounding the bird’s disappearance for North Yorkshire police to issue a call for information from the public on Monday. “The eagle’s disappearance is being treated as suspicious,” their press release said, “and an investigation is underway”. This was a more significant matter than your average avian disappearance. Since 2019, the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation (RDWF) and Forestry England have been seeking to reintroduce white-tailed eagles to the south coast . Once widespread across the UK, human persecution caused their extinction in England , with the last pair breeding there in 1780. View image in fullscreen The Snilesworth estate in the North York Moors is famed for its game bird shooting. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian To date, 45 young white-tailed eagles have been released from the project’s base on the Isle of Wight. In 2025, two of the birds bred in Dorset – something not seen in that county for 240 years. It is the resulting chick – satellite-tagged since birth and now fully grown – that has now disappeared. The cause of the disappearance is unknown. But one possibility aligns with what the RSPB says is a largely unchallenged scandal: the routine shooting, trapping or poisoning of birds of prey in the UK. The proximity of the eagle’s last known location to a number of large grouse shooting estates has not gone unnoticed. Between 2015 and 2024, 921 confirmed incidents of raptor persecution were recorded, of which at least 55% occurred on or near land managed for game

The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin View image in fullscreen The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitte…

The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin View image in fullscreen The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitted with a satellite tracker disappear in prime grouse-shooting country? The six police officers arrived at the Snilesworth estate in two pickup trucks last week, according to one account. They asked to go up on the moors, a source said, and “so off they went”. A vast expanse of spectacularly undulating lands on the western edge of the North York Moors, Snilesworth is globally renowned for its grouse, partridge and pheasant shooting. It is known locally for attracting “rich people from London in helicopters and blacked-out SUVs”. This time, though, it was another rarified flying visitor that had drawn the police’s interest: the North York Moors are at the centre of a mystery surrounding a missing bird of prey. The officers, representing the national wildlife crime unit and North Yorkshire police, were seeking clues to the whereabouts of a white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, and more colloquially called the ‘flying barn door’, due to a 2.5-metre wingspan that makes them the UK’s largest raptor. Little appears to have been found in the copse that is said to have been the focus of the officers’ attentions. But enough apparently worried them about the circumstances surrounding the bird’s disappearance for North Yorkshire police to issue a call for information from the public on Monday. “The eagle’s disappearance is being treated as suspicious,” their press release said, “and an investigation is underway”. This was a more significant matter than your average avian disappearance. Since 2019, the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation (RDWF) and Forestry England have been seeking to reintroduce white-tailed eagles to the south coast . Once widespread across the UK, human persecution caused their extinction in England , with the last pair breeding there in 1780. View image in fullscreen The Snilesworth estate in the North York Moors is famed for its game bird shooting. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian To date, 45 young white-tailed eagles have been released from the project’s base on the Isle of Wight. In 2025, two of the birds bred in Dorset – something not seen in that county for 240 years. It is the resulting chick – satellite-tagged since birth and now fully grown – that has now disappeared. The cause of the disappearance is unknown. But one possibility aligns with what the RSPB says is a largely unchallenged scandal: the routine shooting, trapping or poisoning of birds of prey in the UK. The proximity of the eagle’s last known location to a number of large grouse shooting estates has not gone unnoticed. Between 2015 and 2024, 921 confirmed incidents of raptor persecution were recorded, of which at least 55% occurred on or near land managed for game

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'He's causing havoc': Parrot loose in Inverness blamed for damage to cars 4 days ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Angus Chisholm The parakeet has been seen in Inverness since February A parrot is being blamed for causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to cars in an Inverness suburb. The bird - a type of parrot called a parakeet - has been seen flying around the Lochardil area of the city since February this year. And local residents say they regularly see it pecking at window seals and windscreen wipers, gouging out huge chunks of rubber. "Parakeet is not a good word round here in Inverness," said local resident Cathleen MacKinnon. "This little chap causes havoc on the cars around here." She told BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors : "I have never seen the bird - I have just seen the damage it causes." Some of her neighbours are covering their cars in tarpaulin to protect them from the bird; one is rumoured to have spent £800 on repairs. Chrissanne Robertson's car has been damaged by the bird Another resident, Chrissanne Robertson, said the bird was spotted in their street earlier this year. "And of course, we all thought it looked lovely, until we saw the damage it was doing to the cars," she added. "He's done a lot of damage to cars up and down the street and we can't do anything about it." She estimates that the bird has done thousands of pounds worth of damage during its time on the street. "Sometimes we'll see him, sometimes we won't," she said. "Sometimes it leaves, it can be away for a couple of weeks, and we think, 'oh we won't see it again', but then somebody will go out the next day and you'll here a shout of 'he's back again!'." Victoria Powell The parakeet has been pictured sitting on the handle of Chrissane's front door The bird has pecked chunks out of the window seals Chrissanne said they had approached RSPB Scotland, the Scottish SPCA and NatureScot about the issue but they were unable to help. "We're trying everything, but the bird is still here," she said. "I don't know what we're going to do - we laugh about it some days and cry other days." Parakeets are the UK's only naturalised parrot, according to the RSPB , and they are common sight around London and parts of the south-east of England. The bird charity says there are about 8,600 breeding pairs, and they have a wingspan of up to 48cm (19in). But they are much more unusual in the north of Scotland and the bird in Lochardil is thought to be an escaped pet. Windscreen wipers have also been under attack A spokesperson for Highland Council said their environmental health team would not get involved "as these are wild birds". NatureScot said it was not known why parrots, and other birds, eat or dismantle windscreen wipers. A spokesperson said: "Wildlife experts have put forward three main theories for this destructive behaviour: they are defending their territory against their own reflection, they crave certain fats or minerals in the rubber, or they are simply explori

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'He's causing havoc': Parrot loose in Inverness blamed for damage to cars 4 days ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Angus Chisholm The parakeet has been seen in Inverness since February A parrot is being blamed for causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to cars in an Inverness suburb. The bird - a type of parrot called a parakeet - has been seen flying around the Lochardil area of the city since February this year. And local residents say they regularly see it pecking at window seals and windscreen wipers, gouging out huge chunks of rubber. "Parakeet is not a good word round here in Inverness," said local resident Cathleen MacKinnon. "This little chap causes havoc on the cars around here." She told BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors : "I have never seen the bird - I have just seen the damage it causes." Some of her neighbours are covering their cars in tarpaulin to protect them from the bird; one is rumoured to have spent £800 on repairs. Chrissanne Robertson's car has been damaged by the bird Another resident, Chrissanne Robertson, said the bird was spotted in their street earlier this year. "And of course, we all thought it looked lovely, until we saw the damage it was doing to the cars," she added. "He's done a lot of damage to cars up and down the street and we can't do anything about it." She estimates that the bird has done thousands of pounds worth of damage during its time on the street. "Sometimes we'll see him, sometimes we won't," she said. "Sometimes it leaves, it can be away for a couple of weeks, and we think, 'oh we won't see it again', but then somebody will go out the next day and you'll here a shout of 'he's back again!'." Victoria Powell The parakeet has been pictured sitting on the handle of Chrissane's front door The bird has pecked chunks out of the window seals Chrissanne said they had approached RSPB Scotland, the Scottish SPCA and NatureScot about the issue but they were unable to help. "We're trying everything, but the bird is still here," she said. "I don't know what we're going to do - we laugh about it some days and cry other days." Parakeets are the UK's only naturalised parrot, according to the RSPB , and they are common sight around London and parts of the south-east of England. The bird charity says there are about 8,600 breeding pairs, and they have a wingspan of up to 48cm (19in). But they are much more unusual in the north of Scotland and the bird in Lochardil is thought to be an escaped pet. Windscreen wipers have also been under attack A spokesperson for Highland Council said their environmental health team would not get involved "as these are wild birds". NatureScot said it was not known why parrots, and other birds, eat or dismantle windscreen wipers. A spokesperson said: "Wildlife experts have put forward three main theories for this destructive behaviour: they are defending their territory against their own reflection, they crave certain fats or minerals in the rubber, or they are simply explori

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