Birds of prey progress is ‘mixed’

IRELAND’S Environment — An Assessment 2016 has been published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 

Chapter 4 of the report covers biodiversity and nature conservation; progress on reintroducing birds of prey to Ireland, it says, has been “mixed”.

Between 2007 and 2011, 158 Welsh red kite chicks were released in Wicklow and Dublin. According to the EPA, 31 of them have been found dead.