 Natural Research is helping the reintroduction of golden eagles into Ireland. In 1989 a project to re-introduced the golden eagle into Ireland and to ultimately establish a self-sustaining population was conceived. In 2001 the first eaglets were taken from wild Scottish eagle nests and released in Ireland using a technique called ‘hacking’. You can visit the re-introduction project’s web page at: http://www.goldeneagle.ie/
In 2005 the Irish re-introduction team purchased two satellite-received transmitters, so that they could follow more closely the movements of the eagles after release. Natural Research is covering the cost of satellite time for these tags and providing in-kind support by collating eagle location data and passing it on to the Irish team.
Although a bit to the side of our normal focus on wildlife research, Natural Research is happy to provide this support to both the project and the Scottish Raptor Study Groups, who are providing eaglets for the effort. The information that is collected is of some use to us from a research point of view in that it will add to our understanding of how eagles range prior to breeding, a project we are pursuing in Scotland. Click here to see our web page that describes our eagle dispersal project, and keep up with the Irish reintroduction through their web site.
Movements of re-introduced golden eagles in Ireland.
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