Yesterday, the RSPB announced the shocking news that 20 hen harriers had gone ‘missing’ on grouse moors in northern England between April 2022 – April 2023, and that the mutilated corpse of a further hen harrier, named ‘Free’, had been found dead on moorland in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (see here). Hen harrier ‘Free’ … Continue reading Post mortem reveals hen harrier’s cause of death was ‘head being twisted & pulled off while the body was held tightly’