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- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: SEA EAGLES FLY OVER IRELAND AGAIN
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.034202.26831@microsoft.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:42:02 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
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- In the latest issue of the National Geographic magazine is an
- item in the Geographica section about a trial program to
- return sea eagles to Ireland. What follows is a paraphrase:
-
- The item informs us that the Irish term for these birds is
- iolar sh/uil na gr/eine -- the "eagle with sunlit eyes." The
- last breeding pair was recorded in Ireland in 1898. The
- eagles, with their six-foot wingspans, were once common in
- Ireland and much of the rest of Europe until hunters shot
- migratory birds and poison bait set out for stray dogs and
- vermin finished off the rest.
-
- Ireland now bans poison baits, permitting the eagles'
- reintroduction.
-
- A pair of birds was released last April on the island of
- Inishvickillane off the Dingle Peninsula. The young male
- vanished within weeks, but the female has survived and will
- be joined by another male soon (from the German Raptor
- Research Center near Guttenburg).
-
- Sean McKeown, manager of Ireland's Fota Wildlife Park, is
- quoted as saying he expects the Irish venture to succeed in
- about 20 years. "A 17-year effort in Scotland now counts ten
- pairs of eagles."
-
- --
- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
-