White-tailed eagle shooting condemned
One of the resident adult white-tailed eagles on Lough Lein at Killarney National Park. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan / NPWS
The shooting dead of a two-year-old female white-tailed eagle at Lough Owel, near Mullingar in Co Westmeath last month shocked nature lovers countrywide and was widely condemned as a deplorable act.
It was particularly regretted in the Shannon Estuary, where she was released in 2022 as part of a re-introduction programme for the endangered species by the National Parks and Wildlife Service in partnership with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.
