The long-running row over Britain’s hen harriers could offer lessons for other conservation conflicts, new research shows. Hen harriers’ prey includes birds that are shot for sport, especially red ...

The study, published as the cover article in BioMed Central's Avian Research, led by the Earlham Institute and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, explores the ...

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Record numbers of hen harriers have been killed or gone missing under suspicious circumstances in the last five years, according to the RSPB. The protected bird species is one of the rarest in the UK, ...

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England is facing an enormous wildlife challenge with the country's most threatened breeding bird of prey. There's just a handful of hen harriers left, and now, following the disappearance of three ...

As the grouse shooting season gets under way, two scientists involved in high-profile studies of hen harriers and red grouse at Langholm Moor in Scotland have called for field trials of a "ceiling" on ...

A pattern in our relations with birds of prey is that we borrow their names as a way of celebrating human technologies. The Harrier jump jet is a good illustration. It was meant to honour the ...

Two hen harriers born in the Peak District have been fitted with satellite tags in a bid to protect them from persecution. The National Trust said the tags would provide "vital information" about the ...

England’s nature regulator is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to take hen harrier eggs from the wild and rear the birds in captivity. Hen harriers are struggling to survive in the UK because ...

The news the young female bird of prey "Annie", who was satellite tagged as a chick, was illegally killed in Scotland, is likely to worsen the dispute between conservationists and the shooting ...