\n This marks the fourth consecutive year of successful fledging in England.\n<\/p>\n
\n The chick, known as GE38, is the offspring of G463 and G466, two eagles introduced through a reintroduction project led by Forestry England and the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation.\n<\/p>\n
\n The project began in 2019 and aims to re-establish the species in southern England after more than two centuries of absence.\n<\/p>\n
\n Roy Dennis OBE of the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation said: “This year\u2019s breeding success is another important milestone in the return of this lost species to England; it shows what can be achieved by very skilled wildlife managers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This is now the fourth year where these released eagles have raised and fledged chicks.\n<\/p>\n
\n “With a further three pairs of eagles also well-established, we should see this progress continue in the next few years.”\n<\/p>\n
\n White-tailed eagles, also known as sea eagles, are Britain\u2019s largest birds of prey, with wingspans reaching up to 2.5 metres.\n<\/p>\n
\n The species was once widespread across England but became extinct in the 18th century due to human persecution.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Dorset nest marks the second successful breeding for the parent birds.\n<\/p>\n
\n The male eagle, G463, is especially notable for having successfully raised a chick despite having only one leg\u2014a loss sustained five years ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n All three chicks fledged in England this year have been fitted with satellite tags to allow conservation teams to monitor their movements.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tracking data from previous years has shown that young eagles range widely across the UK after fledging.\n<\/p>\n
\n Steve Egerton-Read, white-tailed eagle project officer for Forestry England, said: “It\u2019s been another long summer of watching and hoping that the eagles would be successful in breeding and raising young.\n<\/p>\n
\n “There is nothing quite like that moment of seeing the chicks hatch and first appear in the nest.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is then a waiting game while we watch their progress.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are delighted that these three chicks made it through and will be closely watching their progress as they begin to explore the landscape.”\n<\/p>\n
\n This year, the project team also gathered detailed data on the breeding eagles’ diet using cameras installed near the nests.\n<\/p>\n
\n More than 300 food deliveries were recorded, with fish making up the majority of the diet.\n<\/p>\n
\n The reintroduction of white-tailed eagles is carried out under licence from Natural England.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation collects birds from wild nests in Scotland under licence from NatureScot.\n<\/p>\n
\n To date, 56 young eagles have been released in southern England, including five birds this summer from the Isle of Wight.\n<\/p>\n
\n For the first time, six additional eagles were released at Exmoor National Park in partnership with the Exmoor National Park Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This marks the fourth consecutive year of successful fledging in England. The chick, known as GE38, is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-775722","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\/775722","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=775722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}