Six sea eagle chicks leave their nests in 2016

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.

Between 2007 and 2011, 100 birds were brought from Norway to the Killarney National Park. To date, 13 chicks have survived.

The aim is to get at least 10 chicks flying from their nests each year. In fact, some of the breeding “pairings” this year actually involved three eagles. On the Iveragh peninsula on the Ring of Kerry, a male and two females were involved in one site; and on the Beara, a female and two males got together.