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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hen harriers are the most persecuted bird in the UK, says the RSPB Record numbers of hen harriers, one of the UK’s rarest birds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hen harriers are one of the rarest birds in the UK as a result of intense persecution - Blickwinkel /Alamy Hen harriers have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerns have been raised after a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier disappeared while breeding in the Forest of Bowland, as the RSPB reports a total ...

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Two hen harriers born in the Peak District have been fitted with satellite tags in a bid to protect them from persecution. The National Trust said the tags would provide "vital information" about 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 ...

A warning has been issued after a pesticide, known as the 'Nidderdale Cocktail', killed 15 birds of prey and one dog in North ...

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 ...