A survey of hen harriers is planned for next month in a bid to monitor the dwindling numbers of the endangered bird.

Yet another white-tailed sea eagle — one of 100 released in Killarney National Park as part of a reintroduction project — has been found dead, suspected of being poisoned.

A pair of white-tailed sea eagles has bred successfully for a second year, producing a female chick which has flown from its nest in Lough Derg, near Mountshannon, Co Clare.

Eager crowds turned out yesterday in the Lough Derg village of Mountshannon to catch a glimpse of the ‘stars’ of the Golden Eagle Trust re-introduction project, Caimin and Saoirse.

Close to €1.5m has been spent reintroducing three species of birds of prey, one of which had been extinct here for more than 200 years.

The first white-tailed eagle chick of 2014 has appeared in Mountshannon, Co Clare, but one hatched near Glengarriff, Co Cork, has died.

The first White-Tailed Eagle chicks of 2014 hatched at nests in Glengarriff, Co Cork and Mountshannon, Co. Clare, it has been announced.

Human health could have been put at risk after a red kite was found dead in a reservoir from lethal poison.

Two more golden eagle chicks have fledged in Donegal, but the poisoning of birds of prey continues to be a serious problem and undermines reintroduction projects in Ireland.

In a phenomenon witnessed for the first time in Ireland in over 110 years, two white-tailed eagle chicks have successfully fledged and flown from their nest.

The first chick hatched in a project to bring white-tailed sea eagles back to Ireland was tagged yesterday and its movements can now be tracked through a satellite transmitter.

White-tailed eagles have been born in the wild in Ireland for the first time in more than 100 years.

A programme to reintroduce protected red kites to Ireland has received a setback with the poisoning of one of the birds, which was found in Wicklow Town. It died despite the efforts of local vets to save it.

A young red kite has died from poisoning in a similar manner to its mother.

The bodies of two white-tailed sea eagles, found in Derrynane, Co Kerry, and Glengarriff, Co Cork.

AN old friend from days working in the bog long ago was recently talking with us about the disappearing curlew, whose evocative ‘cur..lee cur..lee’ cry hasn’t been heard for years.

An ailing red kite found on a Co Wicklow roadside was successfully released back into the wild yesterday.

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has condemned the apparent poisoning of white-tailed sea eagles in Mayo and Donegal.

Hopes are rising that white-tailed sea eagles are about to produce chicks for the first time in Ireland in more than 100 years.

PHILLIP O’Sullivan Beare wrote a book about Ireland while he was exiled in Spain following the Battle of Kinsale.

THE first phase of the white-tailed sea eagle reintroduction programme came to a close in Killarney National Park in recent weeks with the release of an additional 23 young eagles, bringing to 100 the number of birds set loose in the wild through this unique project.

BIRDWATCH Ireland has expressed horror after poisoners used three live pigeons tied to the ground to kill a pair of young buzzards.

NEWBRIDGE House, a fine 18th Century mansion in north County Dublin, was the ancestral home of the Cobbe family, whose ranks included an archbishop and a Lord Lieutenant.

IN ITS efforts to re-introduce an extinct species, the Golden Eagle Trust is sadly advocating the killing of existing species. The trust’s website discourages farmers from threatening eagles by illegally poisoning foxes and suggests that they instead shoot them.

DESPITE the recent death of another white-tailed sea eagle after consuming a banned poison, the project to reintroduce the spectacular birds of prey to the south-west is to continue.

ANOTHER white-tailed sea eagle has been found dead from poisoning, in Co Kerry, the first death of an eagle since legislation banning the use of poisons was introduced in October.

WITH poisoning of foxes and crows now illegal, farmers are being urged to find other ways of controlling pests, especially those that prey on young lambs.

WITH a fair north-westerly wind behind them, nine white-tailed eaglets flapped their wings and flew tentatively into skies over Killarney Lakes yesterday.

WE the undersigned wish to clarify matters in relation to recent news coverage of the poisoning of white-tailed sea eagles in Kerry.

IT was farmers who first got into a flap about the idea of reintroducing white-tailed eagles to Kerry and the south-west. In advance of the arrival of the first lot of birds in the summer of 2007, the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) organised well-attended meetings to voice objections.

IN his letter (May 31), Jim O’Toole of Bord Bia helpfully indicates that they require control of rodents but that control methods that do not involve the use of poison are acceptable.

THE wild and factually incorrect assertions by Roderic O’Sullivan (Letters, May 31) show a complete failure to recognise the efforts by farmers to enhance the rural environment.

THE feats of Fiadhna, a white-tailed eagle which has circumnavigated Ireland twice since being released in Killarney last August, were yesterday being celebrated by nature lovers.

THERE’S enough room for everyone, humans and animals, in this country.

PEOPLE in areas all over Ireland where wildlife has been under deadly pressure for decades and where some species have either disappeared or are under serious threat, are now getting involved in conservation projects.

THREE protected birds of prey found dead in separate counties in recent months were each poisoned by a different chemical, tests have confirmed.

Efforts to bring majestic birds of prey back to Irish skies have been dealt a massive blow after eagles and kites were killed in a spate of poisonings, it emerged tonight.

Tests have confirmed that a golden eagle found dead in Donegal last month was poisoned.

Richard Collins says so far only two of 53 red kite chicks have perished in wild.

GARDAÍ in Wicklow are investigating the shooting dead of a red kite — one of just 30 in the country who were released last month as part of a reintroduction programme of the species.

Once-extinct sea eagles were today released into the wild by Minister for the Environment and Heritage John Gormley.

WATCHING offspring leave the nest is always hard but one group of guardians were thrilled to see their youngster spread her wings.

RED kites, which have a wingspan of one and three quarter metres, are being reintroduced to the Irish countryside after an absence of 200 years.

A five-year breeding experiment to re-introduce eagles in Ireland takes flight today.