A White-tailed Eagle from the Irish reintroduction programme has been shot in Co Roscommon.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Ireland is investigating the invention of the lifeless chook – a two-year-old feminine – which was discovered close to Cranberry Lough. The NPWS confirmed the chook was shot and is awaiting the outcomes of forensic assessments for extra data.
The eagle was launched on the shores of Lough Derg in 2022 as a part of the reintroduction programme. Data from the chook’s satellite tv for pc tag suggests it died on 11 or 12 March.
The White-tailed Eagle discovered lifeless in Cp Roscommon was shot (NPWS).
‘Devastating’ information
Irish Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan mentioned he was devastated by information of the loss of life “of one in every of our beloved White-tailed Eagles”.
“These majestic birds have been a part of a reintroduction mission to revive their populations in Ireland and to assume that one can be shot is unconscionable,” he mentioned.
Mr Noonan appealed to anybody who has data to contact the NPWS or Gardaí.
Data from the eagle’s tags confirmed that, since her launch, the chook travelled from the Shannon Estuary in Limerick north by the Burren in Co Clare, earlier than arriving in Donegal in mid-April 2023.
In 2024, it spent most of its time alongside the borders between Cos Galway, Offaly and Roscommon earlier than it died.
Foul play
Last yr, a police investigation was launched after two White-tailed Eagles have been discovered lifeless in Co Antrim, which adopted a separate poisoning in 2021. In 2023, an extra launch eagles in Ireland was accomplished.
