\n Scans and treatment revealed four-year-old Squeagle had been shot and had at least 17 shotgun pellets lodged in her body and wings.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police said inquiries remain ongoing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are working alongside our colleagues in Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria and North Yorkshire, supported by the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, to establish who was responsible,\u201d said Detective Sergeant David Lynn, national wildlife crime co-ordinator at Police Scotland.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police said Squeagle was moved from the Outer Hebrides to the Lammermuir Hills in the Borders in early this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n After her release, Squeagle travelled through parts of northern England, including Northumberland, the Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales.\n<\/p>\n
\n A photograph taken in Northumberland on May 4 showed significant damage to her wing feathers.\n<\/p>\n
\n On June 1, gamekeepers on an estate in the Lammermuirs became concerned after noticing the bird behaving unusually.\n<\/p>\n
\n Squeagle was collected and taken to the Scottish SPCA\u2019s National Wildlife Rescue Centre at Fishcross for assessment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Experts believe the injuries were not recent, as the wounds had already healed by the time she was taken in.\n<\/p>\n
\n Following treatment by veterinary specialists, Squeagle was released back into the wild on June 6.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her condition will continue to be monitored through observations and satellite tracking.\n<\/p>\n
\n Detective Sergeant David Lynn, national wildlife crime co-ordinator, said: \u201cThis was a serious attack on a protected bird of prey, which I utterly condemn.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThanks to the quick actions of those who reported concerns, the golden eagle was able to receive specialist treatment and has since been returned to the wild.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are working with partners across Scotland and northern England to establish where and when she was shot.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Golden eagles are a \u201crare bird of the mountains and moorlands of Scotland\u201d, according to the Scottish Wildlife Trust.\n<\/p>\n
\n The birds are strictly protected under UK and Scottish law, and it is a crime to intentionally kill or injure them.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland, quoting incident number 1361 of June 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scans and treatment revealed four-year-old Squeagle had been shot and had at least 17 shotgun pellets lodged in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-668379","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\/668379","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=668379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}