{"id":416573,"date":"2026-02-09T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416573\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:21:46","slug":"probe-after-golden-eagle-found-in-borders-with-shotgun-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416573\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe after golden eagle found in Borders with shotgun injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a review of tracking data, and consultation with experts, it is believed Hamlet was shot during the first week of January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is thought he was injured in an area between Stanhope and Glenbreck off the A701 Broughton to Moffat road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Sgt David Lynn said: &#8220;It is extremely disappointing that we are investigating another golden eagle persecution crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Very few people would have the means, opportunity and motive to commit this crime and I would urge anyone with any information to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/contact-us\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contact us, external<\/a> so we can identify whoever is responsible for shooting Hamlet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are working with the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and anyone with information has been asked to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamlet was relocated to the area as part of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project (SSGEP) which has boosted bird numbers in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a review of tracking data, and consultation with experts, it is believed Hamlet was shot during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-416573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416573","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=416573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}