• White-tailed eagles: their reintroduction to Scotland

  • Oct 18 2019
  • Length: 20 mins
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White-tailed eagles: their reintroduction to Scotland

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  • The white-tailed eagle had been absent from Scotland for forty years when the very first attempt at reintroduction took place in 1958. A later project, led in 1968 by Roy Dennis and George Waterston on Fair Isle, between Orkney and Shetland, was groundbreaking but also unsuccessful, due largely to the very small number of birds involved.  This podcast, though, hears from John Love, in conversation with Roy, as he talks about his ten years on the Hebridean island of Rum, site of the first successful reintroduction of sea eagles to Scotland, led by John in partnership with Roy and others. Eleven consecutive years and a total of 83 eagles brought in from Norway (with invaluable support from the RAF) led to success for this precursor to similar reintroduction projects, such as the current one on the Isle of Wight.

    Producer: Moira Hickey
    Contributors (in order of appearance):  John Love, Roy Dennis

    Music credit:  Realness by Kai Engel, downloadable from the Free Music Archive
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/




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