The long-running row over Britain’s hen harriers could offer lessons for other conservation conflicts, new research shows. Hen harriers’ prey includes birds that are shot for sport, especially red ...
Genomics reveals that the Hen Harrier has two distinct evolutionary lineages. Deemed as one species spread across different continents, scientists now confirm that the Eurasian Hen Harrier and the ...
As the grouse shooting season gets under way, two scientists involved in high-profile studies of hen harriers and red grouse at Langholm Moor in Scotland have called for field trials of a "ceiling" on ...
In 2025, it is suspected that a total of seven RSPB satellite-tagged Hen Harriers were illegally killed on or near grouse ...
Concerns have been raised after a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier disappeared while breeding in the Forest of Bowland, as the RSPB reports a total ...
Five hen harrier chicks have fledged "against the odds" after four breeding males disappeared, the RSPB said. Staff at the conservation charity said the disappearance of two of the rare birds from ...
A hen harrier is about 46-50 centimetres long with a wing span of 108-112 centimetres. They are a scare breeding species — but are becoming a rare breeding species. The ones that are found here are ...
A rare bird of prey is feared to have been shot in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sita, a one-year-old hen harrier, had fledged from her nest in the Forest of Bowland, before settling at a ...
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England’s nature regulator is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to take hen harrier eggs from the wild and rear the birds in captivity. Hen harriers are struggling to survive in the UK because ...
A warning has been issued after a pesticide, known as the 'Nidderdale Cocktail', killed 15 birds of prey and one dog in North ...
The study, published as the cover article in BioMed Central's Avian Research, led by the Earlham Institute and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, explores the ...