Another satellite tagged bird of prey disappears in the Monadhliath Mountains (RSPB) (2 Viewers)

[BF Newsroom]

RSPB Scotland has announced that a young hen harrier has gone missing on a grouse moor in the Monadhliath Mountains.

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[rosbifs]

Well there we go again......

8 Golden Eagles in the same area in five years - close them down!

 

[Jack Dawe]

BBC report here.

I note that the Scottish Gamekeepers' Association said that there is "no independent information" - meaning, presumably, that the RSPB isn't to be trusted - and the Scottish Moorland Group said that the RSPB "had not considered other reasons for the loss of the tags". I'm sure the RSPB has much greater experience of the behaviour of the tags and the birds that carry them countrywide than either of these Scottish Groups. In the circumstances the smokescreen they are attempting to raise is as good as an admission of guilt.

 

[Robin Edwards]

Given that the LACS have supported recent petitions to ban DGS, do we think the time in now for Sabs to shadow keepers on Scottish moorlands where bops are vaporising as they have shadowed hunts to prevent illegal activities?
They could of course also record evidence of alien abduction of said raptors if only to prove the myth spreaders correct that they're not being persecuted at all.

 

[John Cantelo]

The responses of Scottish Gamekeepers' Association and the Scottish Moorland Group are a disgrace and make them little more than knowing accessories. As the RSPB pointed out in their statement "The denials and obfuscation from representatives of the land management sector, and their consistent failure to acknowledge and address this problem, is one of the main reasons why our bird of prey populations are struggling in the central and eastern Highlands".

Perhaps we're tagging the wrong group .....

 

[rosbifs]

very good idea!!!

trackers - and then could cross match with missing birds...

 

[Mary]

But perhaps that could actually be used in the gamekeeper's favour? He (she?) goes down to the pub with his/her mates, wearing tag. Meanwhile, a 'pal' goes out and commits the crime. "Who, me, guv? I was in the pub & can prove it, read me tag!"