Some new insights into the extinction-threatened hen harrier have come to light in a study by a rural development group in Co Cork.

Hopes are rising that an Irish-bred, white-tailed eagle will produce a chick in 2018, writes Donal Hickey

For tree-lovers, autumn is perhaps the most beautiful time of the year when foliage changes into a rich mixture of brown, red, yellow, orange and gold.

Six white-tailed sea eagle chicks have flown from their nests in 2016, making it the most successful year yet for the reintroduced birds, project organisers have said.

Nature lovers will be taken out in a boat at Killarney National Park this weekend in the hope of viewing two of the park’s most prized possessions, white-tailed sea eagle chicks.

Ireland’s hen-harrier population has declined by 33.5% since 2000, and this is likely to be down to several factors, including tree-felling, windfams, and turf-cutting. The hen harrier is one of our rarest birds.

The first white-tailed sea eagles chicks in Co Kerry in more than a century have flown their nests.

A white-tailed sea eagle chick that became a tourist attraction over the past month in Glengarriff, West Cork, has died of natural causes.

A programme to reintroduce white-tailed sea eagles to Ireland has made a significant breakthrough, with chicks being hatched across four counties.

The death of yet another white-tailed sea eagle by illegal poisoning was yesterday described as a “major blow” to the project to reintroduce the protected species to Ireland.

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 project to reintroduce white-tailed sea eagles to Ireland looks like being successful, with a viable breeding population being established.

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.

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.

The shooting of a young, white-tailed eagle in Co Tipperary was yesterday described as a “significant blow’’ to a groundbreaking project to reintroduce the species to Ireland.

Energy Minster Pat Rabbitte’s defence of Eirgrid’s plans to upgrade the grid has become strident.

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 white-tailed sea eagle found dead in West Cork was poisoned, but the cause of death of a second sea eagle in south Kerry has not been determined.

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

The first documented attempt by white-tailed sea eagles to breed in Ireland for the first time in 100 years has failed.

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

A WHITE-TAILED sea eagle, released last year as part of a reintroduction project in Killarney National Park, has been returned to the wild after being found injured in Scotland.

DETERMINED to recover from the devastating blow of finding 19 birds dead over the past four years, the team behind the white-tailed sea eagle reintroduction project will today release 10 more young chicks into the Kerry countryside.

A WHITE-TAILED sea eagle has been killed in Kerry after being hit by a wind turbine blade.

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.

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.

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.

AN experienced detective has been appointed to investigate the illegal poisoning of protected eagles in Co Kerry, Gardaí confirmed yesterday.

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

THE continued poisoning of protected birds of prey, such as eagles and red kites, is putting a serious question mark over ambitious projects to reintroduce these birds here, wildlife experts warned yesterday.

ANOTHER white-tailed sea eagle, introduced to Killarney National Park as part of a nature restoration project, has been found dead, believed poisoned.

ANOTHER group of white-tailed sea eagles was released in Killarney National Park yesterday as part of an ongoing project to re-introduce eagles to the south-west.

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.

AN EAGLE restoration project in Kerry has received a further setback with the death of yet another bird, believed to be from poisoning.

EIGHT young white-tailed sea eagles tentatively flapped their wings and took to the air over Killarney National Park as part of a project to reintroduce them to the south-west.

WHITE-TAILED sea eagles are winging it to all corners of the country.

Donal Hickey reports on the fate of the golden eagle in Ireland and Scotland

A FURTHER 20 white-tailed sea eagles have arrived in Killarney National Park.