Agri-Business
The NPWS has appealed to the public for information after the shooting of a white-tailed eagle at Lough Owel, near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
Environment
Four white-tailed eagle chicks have been released back into the wild at Killarney National Park in Co. Kerry today (Tuesday, July 6).
Rural Life
The NPWS has launched an investigation following the discovery of a dead white-tailed eagle near Cranberry Lough in south Roscommon.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has released 24 white-tailed eagle chicks around the country over the past week.
The PSNI has appealed for information following the discovery of two dead white-tailed eagles in Co. Antrim.
The young white-tailed eagle was found to have been discovered with the insecticide carbofuran, possibly deliberately.
21 eagle chicks were released into the wild in recent days as part of an Irish-Norwegian white-tailed sea eagle reintroduction programme.
Twenty three white-tailed eagle chicks arrived in Kerry Airport today as part of a long-term wildlife reintroduction project led by NPWS
Four white-tailed eagles have been released at a site on the Shannon Estuary in the North Kerry/West Limerick area.
Last month, AgriLand reported that white-tailed eagles, which were once the foes of many farmers, are now slowly becoming their friends.
Farmers are nestling to the idea of eagles being reintroduced to Ireland, with some even helping to monitor birds and nests at sites.
A total of six white-tailed eagle chicks successfully fledged in three counties in 2016, making it the most successful year in the reintroduction programme.
Eight pairs of White-tailed Eagles have nested and laid eggs with five nests successfully hatching chicks in counties Clare, Cork, Galway and Kerry.
The illegal poisoning of a White-tailed Eagle in Connemara has been condemned by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys.
