Press statement from North Yorkshire Police (1st June 2026):
INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY AFTER DISAPPEARANCE OF EAGLE
We are appealing for information after the disappearance of a white-tailed eagle.
The satellite-tagged juvenile white-tailed eagle (G834) was born in the wild in Dorset in 2025 and travelled widely across England this spring. On 30 April 2026, it arrived in the western side of the North York Moors.
Overnight into 1 May, the tag device did not communicate. There have been no further transmissions since then.
Following analysis by the National Wildlife Crime Unit, the eagle’s disappearance is being treated as suspicious, and an investigation is underway by North Yorkshire Police.
Anyone with any information is asked to call North Yorkshire Police on 101, quoting reference 12260086274.
ENDS
This press statement from North Yorkshire Police couldn’t be more vague.
Given the location, and the details of this young eagle’s final hours (as revealed by its satellite tag), there’s an awful lot of information that’s missing from this appeal.
I’ll be writing more about it shortly…
Raptor Persecution UK 
If that bird has been harmed then that is absolutely gutting, to arrive on the moors on the 30th and not even make it through to the next day beggars belief, do these keepers have an alarm system that goes off as soon as a BOP arrives on their patch?