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Golden eagle rears chick in wild (Original Post) shenmue Feb 2018 OP
'An Irish bred golden eagle has successfully reared a chick elleng Feb 2018 #1

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1. 'An Irish bred golden eagle has successfully reared a chick
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 09:09 PM
Feb 2018

in the wild for the first time in more than 100 years.

Golden eagles were wiped out in Ireland through habitat changes and widespread hunting in the early 1900s.

A scheme to reintroduce the birds of prey to Ireland saw a number of Scottish-bred chicks released in County Donegal between 2001 and 2012.

Three separate pairs of golden eagles fledged a chick in 2017 in Donegal.'

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