Once extinct white-tailed eagle chicks released into the wild 

NPWS conservation rangers collected 2 chicks from a nest in Lough Derg for tagging and documenting details of the white-tailed eagle chicks before they spread their wings further into Irish skies. Picture: Valerie O’Sullivan

Twenty-four white-tailed eagle chicks have been released across Ireland this month as part of an ongoing National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) programme to reintroduce the once-extinct species. 

The chicks were released around Lough Derg, the Shannon Estuary and the west of Ireland over the past week.