We have it on very good authority that another satellite-tagged golden eagle has gone ‘missing’ in the Monadhliaths in the last couple of weeks.
Going ‘missing’ doesn’t equate to ‘being dead’ of course, but it’s really stretching the boundaries of credibility to believe that yet another disappearance is the result of yet another dysfunctional tag, especially when the area of its last known movements just happens to be one of the country’s persecution hotspots.
How many’s that since the sat-tagging began several years ago? We’ve lost count. Just looking at this year’s reports, in addition to this latest eagle, we know about this ‘missing’ satellite-tagged golden eagle (here), this ‘missing’ satellite-tagged golden eagle (here), this dead satellite-tagged golden eagle (here), and this dead satellite-tagged golden eagle found poisoned in Lochaber (here). How many don’t we know about?
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I wonder if the staff at MP Richard Benyon’s Glenmazeran shooting estate will help in the search for this missing eagle seeing that it was last reported in their patch? Mmmm…..