The long-running row over Britain’s hen harriers could offer lessons for other conservation conflicts, new research shows. Hen harriers’ prey includes birds that are shot for sport, especially red ...

A hen harrier has disappeared in the Cairngorms National Park. Marci was satellite-tagged as a chick in 2018 as part of the RSPB’s Hen Harrier Life project. The tag stopped transmitting on April 22 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hen harriers are one of the rarest birds in the UK as a result of intense persecution - Blickwinkel /Alamy Hen harriers have been ...

The wings of the C16th oak carvings are inspired by hen and marsh harriers. Once common locally - they are returning now.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hen harriers are the most persecuted bird in the UK, says the RSPB Record numbers of hen harriers, one of the UK’s rarest birds of ...

As the grouse shooting season gets under way, two scientists involved in high-profile studies of hen harriers and red grouse at Langholm Moor in Scotland have called for field trials of a "ceiling" on ...

The numbers of breeding hen harriers, one of England’s rarest birds and a protected species, dropped sharply in the late 1990s and early 2000s. To better understand why hen harriers were vanishing, ...

Gamekeepers of Great Britain may be secretly shooting down endangered hen harriers over their red grouse hunting grounds. Wildlife crime is a huge challenge for conservationists to observe and ...

England’s nature regulator is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to take hen harrier eggs from the wild and rear the birds in captivity. Hen harriers are struggling to survive in the UK because ...

Hen harriers are being illegally killed in significant numbers in the UK, a new analysis suggests. These birds of prey are struggling to survive in England and many conservationists believe illegal ...

A conflict between those working to conserve numbers of hen harriers and those maintaining commercial shooting of red grouse in the English uplands has existed for decades with little sign of progress ...

Hen harrier Heulwen was last known to be near Ruabon Mountain, Wrexham, on 29 August. A tag continues to transmit even when the bird dies, and with the disappearance of another bird in February, ...