{"id":141229,"date":"2025-09-16T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141229\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:41:07","slug":"no-sign-of-missing-shetland-pony-foals-in-eagle-nests-says-naturescot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141229\/","title":{"rendered":"No sign of missing Shetland pony foals in eagle nests, says NatureScot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Cameron&#8217;s ponies are part of his Long Island Retreats tourism business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NatureScot inspections on South Uist are part of a wider annual study designed to support farmers whose livestock are endangered by sea eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NatureScot told the BBC it had looked at the two nests closest to the area where the foals were reported missing and said they &#8220;do not contain any foal or lamb bones&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Cameron said there were several other nests within three or four miles which had not been inspected and called on NatureScot to expand its survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People call them sea eagles, but they are white tales eagles and they&#8217;ll predate on anything,&#8221; he told BBC Scotland News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would like the data to be independently collected with the landowner involved and for the other crofters to be included as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bird conservation charity RSBP Scotland welcomed NatureScot&#8217;s investigation, adding: &#8220;It aligns with previous research on white-tailed eagle diets in Scotland, with their natural prey overwhelmingly consisting of small birds, mammals and fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We continue to support an evidence-led approach to their management in Scotland.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Cameron&#8217;s ponies are part of his Long Island Retreats tourism business. The NatureScot inspections on South Uist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-141229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}