One of Britain’s largest and rarest birds which disappeared from the UK during the early 20th century has been spotted here again.
Cat Lake, an amateur photographer from Cornwall took the picture of White-tailed Eagle.
Conservationists at Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society are hopeful that this species will breed within 20 years.
Cat Lake, an amateur photographer from Cornwall took the picture of White-tailed Eagle on Bodmin Moor.
As part of an initiative by Forestry England and Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, the juvenile is among six that were released onto the Isle of Wight.
Others, such as the Chough and Cirl Bunting, have been reintroduced to Cornwall. This shows that there is still hope for lost species.
Almost half of breeding birds have declined in Cornwall, as revealed in Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s State of Nature Cornwall 2020 Report.
As part of an initiative by Forestry England and Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, the juvenile was one of six that were released onto the Isle of Wight.