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Farmers back plan to reintroduce white-tailed eagle to Norfolk

Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 12.04 EST A consultation has been launched to reintroduce Britain’s biggest bird of prey to Norfolk in an unprecedented rewilding move led by farmers. Supported by other landowners in the region, a west Norfolk farm wants to release white-tailed eagles on to its coastal land, after the successful reintroduction of the birds in western Scotland and the Isle of Wight. While those reintroductions were led by conservation organisations, this release is proposed by the Ken Hill Estate, an innovative farm which has reinstated beavers in fenced areas and is farming crops in a “regenerative” system to restore soils and wildlife.

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A White-tailed eagle flying over the coast of Norfolk Credit: Les Bunyan/Forestry England /PA White-tailed eagles are set to be reintroduced to Norfolk in a project to tackle geese and rabbit numbers. A proposal by farm Wild Ken Hill and charity the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation would mark the second time the eagles have been reintroduced to England after going extinct a century ago.  Nicknamed flying barn doors because of their eight-foot size, white-tailed or sea eagles went extinct in Britain in the early 20th century as a result of persecution, but were reintroduced in Scotland in the 1960s. The last pair was recorded in southern England in 1780.

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There has been little research on the negative productivity effects of livestock worrying by these birds, but we are pleased that in the course of this discussion Wild Ken Hill committed to work with us to do more research on that. The project team says there have been no incidents of predation of livestock or poultry by any of the 13 birds released on the Isle of Wight since 2019, including one bird  which spent over five months in west Norfolk, around many outdoor pig farms. The team also visited the Netherlands where a growing Dutch white-tailed eagle population breeds in areas grazed by sheep, but the researchers have recorded no cases of eagles taking lambs or any other livestock and there is no conflict with farming . They said this was due to an abundance of wild prey, particularly water birds and fish, which would be similar in west Norfolk.

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The reintroduction project to bring them back to the south coast, where they were once widespread, involves releasing up to 60 birds taken from the wild population in Scotland as youngsters, over five years. Four of the six released in 2019 survived their first year, and it is expected birds in the project will settle within 30 miles of the release site on the Isle of Wight when they breed at around four to five years old. Roy Dennis said it had been a very encouraging year for the project. We ve been particularly pleased that some people have viewed eagles flying over from their gardens during lockdown and to have received so many enthusiastic and supportive messages, he said.

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