Suspected poisoning of white-tailed eagle prompts call for public vigilance

Caimin was one of the first chicks to be released from Killarney National Park in 2008

One of the resident adult white-tailed eagle pair on the search for food on Lough Lein in Killarney National Park. File picture: Valerie O'Sullivan

One of Ireland’s oldest breeding white-tailed eagles, Caimin (Y), was recently found dead from suspected poisoning in Clare.

He was one of the first chicks to be released from Killarney National Park in 2008, as part of a National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) re-introduction programme to bring back this formerly extinct species to Irish skies.