Frozen sperm used to breed golden eagle

BIRD experts in Britain have become the first in the world to breed a golden eagle using frozen sperm, it was announced yesterday.

The three-week-old chick, named Crystal, hatched at an eagle breeding centre in south Lanarkshire on April 28 and was said to be in “excellent health”.

The University of Abertay Dundee team behind the breakthrough said it could safeguard some of the world’s most endangered birds of prey.