White Tailed Eagle

[Guest Owen]

The RSPB have introduced this bird into Scotland. And are in the act of introducing them to the East Coast of England. I would be grateful for any first hand information in regard to them taking domestic livestock, game birds or farmed fish.

This bird does not have any predatary threats and it's only competitor is the Golden Eagle. And when the chips are down it can out compete the Golden Eagle. It is known to take small animals and will take the fish from otters.

From the 1st April 2010 it will be against the law to release the European Eagle Owl into the wild. Which means that the RSPB will have the right to eliminate them from the wild if they are found there.  

[Guest strapper]

The RSPB have introduced this bird into Scotland. And are in the act of introducing them to the East Coast of England. I would be grateful for any first hand information in regard to them taking domestic livestock, game birds or farmed fish.

This bird does not have any predatary threats and it's only competitor is the Golden Eagle. And when the chips are down it can out compete the Golden Eagle. It is known to take small animals and will take the fish from otters.

From the 1st April 2010 it will be against the law to release the European Eagle Owl into the wild. Which means that the RSPB will have the right to eliminate them from the wild if they are found there.  

 

hi owen m8..it seems they can do as they like , how can they call themselves protectors of birds when they openly admit that about the eagle owls.

there is only one family of birds they like and thats birds of prey!

the others can dissapear if they so wish...madness

 

 

[blaz]

i am not clued up on my history of birds of prey .so when was the white tailed eagle a wild species in the british isles

[Guest Owen]

blaz, the last recorded sighting in Britain was 1886, I think. I know that these birds take live lambs and I was hoping that I would find someone who had first hand knowledge of this.

The RSPB have said that the Eagle Owls that have been seen flying free are all from escapes. They are adamant that they are not British Birds and never have been.

It is obviously a lie, it is just that the Eagle Owl is a major killer of Birds of Prey. When the rabbits were killed by disease in Sweden they turned on Birds of Prey. Buzzards were a main source of food for them at that time. Peregrine Falcons were also taken and were driven from their nest sites on the cliffs and ledges by the presence of these big Owls.

[jimmy white]

there has been an" arguement "for many years  about these eagle owls,, top ornithologists say they are native to britain,, off course the rspb disagree,, i would suppose they have their own reasons,, :-/ :-/ :-/

 

but eagle owls born in the wild ARE in fact native to britain,[being born here] and  SHOULD have the same protection of any other birds of prey,,,but it doesnt seem so :-/ :-/ :-/

 

due to genuine escapees of falcons there are now hybrid falcons flying wild,, if these breed in the wild,, the youngsters will have the same protection,[ as they are born in the wild in britain]

 

im not sure about the white tailed eagle , why introduce them? if they dissapeared by nature in 1886 :-/?

[Guest Owen]

I have been in touch with the RSPB and they say that as from 1st April this year there is legislation banning the release of the Eagle Owl into the wild without a licence. When I asked what that meant, I was told that in effect, it meant that no licence would in fact be granted. And reading between the lines after a discussion with them, they will recapture any Eagle Owls they know about. I think that they will be prepared to kill them if they have problems catching them. I think we now know what happened to the one at Bristol, the ones in Yorkshire and the one at Cardiff.

The reason I want this information is to show that RSPB are acting as if they can do as they like. And they are going to protect the BOP at any cost. I think it is very important to show the Public exactly what sort of organisation they are. At the moment I note that they are milking the fact that they have reintroduced Red Kites into the North East. I have no doubt that they have a propaganda coup with that.

They are also lying through their teeth about the effects of the BOP on the wild life. But,I am sure, this will come out in due course.

[Guest bigda]

a Photo in todays  sun sees a Eagle   take a Starling in mid air, and  they seem to think this is  majestic.     Are  they  not  here    to protected     birds ,  i don't see anything majestic about  that.,    Releasing a bird  in here when there is no   food for it to eat left,   then when it dies of  Starvation ,  someone  will say it was   Poisoned,  then  have  whip round for there cause   save the  BOP

[Guest bigda]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2894057/Where-eagles-snare.html

[Guest mick bowler]

This is a bit of info on them:

 

http://www.goldeneagle.ie/portal.php?z=9

 

And as you see we already have them!

 

http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/Default.aspx?tabid=463

 

It is estimated that, by 2070, Kerry could sustain up to 60 pairs of White-tailed Eagles that would range as far as Clew Bay in Co Mayo.

 

Clew bay is where i live!

[soapy]

              hi owen i wathed a nature programe on the t.v. a couple of years ago and the golden eagle was keeping white tailed sea eagles away from a carcassit looked as though it was more than capable of looking after itsself, and it was considerable smaller