Popular white-tailed eagle chick dies of natural causes

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

The 10-week-old eaglet was the oldest of five hatched nationally this year, described by the project team as a significant breakthrough in the programme to reintroduce sea eagles to Ireland after an absence of more than a century.

It had a large amount of food in its crop — the swollen part of a bird’s gullet where food is stored and prepared for digestion.