Study: Majority of bird of prey deaths in Ireland the result of poisoning

100 common buzzards died as a result of poisoning, shooting, and other unnatural causes in Ireland in the last 13 years.

Almost three-quarters of unnatural deaths of birds of prey in the last 13 years were the result of poisoning, a new study has found.

Some 294 incidents involving the unnatural deaths of birds of prey have been recorded in Ireland over the last 13 years - with 301 individual birds impacted.