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Declan O'Donnell, DCO, with the corpse of a White-tailed
Sea Eagle, found in Co. Cork
A White-tailed Sea Eagle found dead on the
sea shore near Glengarriff, Co. Cork, has been found to have been poisoned. The
bird, a female, released in Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry, in August
2010, had spent much of
2012 in south Kerry before moving to the Beara peninsula between Adrigole and
Glengarriff in December 2012. On 18th January she was discovered by a local man
on the water’s edge near Glengarriff and was brought for post-mortem to the Regional Veterinary
Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine by staff from
the National Parks and Wildlife Service based in Glengarriff. Test results from
the State Laboratory, Celbridge revealed that the bird had been poisoned,
presumably as a result of eating carrion. Earlier in the week another dead
eagle had been found at Derrynane, near Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry but it was not
possible to determine the cause of death of this bird (with thanks to Allan Mee).
