{"id":189935,"date":"2025-12-17T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/189935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:58:09","slug":"disappearance-of-white-tailed-eagle-in-newtown-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/189935\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappearance of white-tailed eagle in Newtown suspicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GettyGetty Images<\/p>\n

White-tailed eagles, such as this one pictured, are protected under UK law<\/p>\n

A large bird of prey has gone missing in mid-Wales after its satellite tag was cut off and hidden in a remote area, investigators have said.<\/p>\n

Dyfed-Powys Police and the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit have appealed for information into the “suspicious disappearance” of a white-tailed eagle in Newtown, Powys.<\/p>\n

They are the UK’s largest bird of prey with a wingspan of up to 2.5m (8.2ft) and are monitored by the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation. They are protected under UK legislation, making it illegal to kill, injure or take them.<\/p>\n

Police have urged anyone who was in the following areas to contact officers: <\/p>\n

Between 11:00 GMT and 13:00 GMT on 13 September at, or around, the Gwgia Reservoir, TregynonBetween midday and 15:00 GMT 13 September on access land near Bryn y Fawnog<\/p>\n

Officers said the bird’s satellite tag was found in nearby remote woodland and they believed it was likely removed with a knife before being hidden.<\/p>\n

Many birds of prey, such as white-tailed eagles, golden eagles and hen harriers, are fitted with tags for scientific research and conservation reasons.<\/p>\n

The force said efforts to find the bird had so far been unsuccessful, despite analysis of DNA and fingerprints.<\/p>\n

It comes as police forces in England investigate the disappearance of two other white-tailed eagles<\/a>, including a chick born in the wild earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is a white-tailed eagle?<\/p>\n

The eagles, also known as sea eagles, were hunted to extinction in England by 1780<\/a> and Scotland by 1918<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were successfully reintroduced in England after a project by the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation and Forestry England<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The eagles were then released in the Isle of Wight which went on to establish territories in Wales, Lincolnshire, Dorset and Sussex.<\/p>\n

White-tailed eagles are not dangerous to humans and generally only attack in self-defence.<\/p>\n

People typically hunt or persecute white-tailed eagles as they were considered a threat to game birds such as pheasants and grouse, as well as livestock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images White-tailed eagles, such as this one pictured, are protected under UK law A large bird of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-189935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}