{"id":32075,"date":"2018-03-22T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=32075"},"modified":"2018-03-22T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:39:47","slug":"police-looking-missing-rare-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/science-environment\/police-looking-missing-rare-bird","title":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a missing rare bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The North Wales Police are appealing for information about rare hen harrier that went missing in Wales after a spate of illegal killings threaten their conservation.<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32110\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-32110 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/03\/Hen-harrier-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"A hen harrier\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32110 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/03\/Hen-harrier-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"A hen harrier\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> The hen harrier, <em>Circus cyaneus<\/em>, is endangered with only a handful of breeding pairs left in the UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">\u00a9<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lorenzo-l-m\/3159826707\/in\/photolist-5PdWoP-Gk83GU-2559Xcu-f6QNwj-QPph8U-HP2aKD-7Rw7bY-7Rw7eW-238mWS7-3JvrMi-dSUPCe-7RVBU8-4Dxgrj-HP2aFk-21Dsa7e-Xdwk15-aDeLHe-eNRLoY-qV9c4W-79KvmS-XgioWZ-Xgi6ep-6gohqj-6iVzSh-WcyZCs-ahp4a5-JEUdot-33E8L1-5MiJTz-DH51oU-22vthZc-vTujHg-21KWcpu-7FofJL-XgiaBc-eZaV32-qDCjxA-dK1QAb-ayGqkV-j5HKdr-XtmTGv-XtmT58-aPQicX-bnZmXX-fc9EQy-dDGYBg-Xgibez-fjLdvC-eX3cde-m1cR6Z\">Lorenzo Magnis<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Hen Harrier has suspiciously disappeared in Wales, sparking an appeal for information by The North Wales Police and RSPB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Illegal killings across the UK have increasingly put hen harriers at risk of extinction by illegal persecution<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; the direct killing of birds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.rspb.org.uk\/our-work\/conservation\/henharrierlife\/\">RSPB\u2019s Hen Harrier LIFE project<\/a> is a five year project, ending in 2019 and aims to secure the future of the species. This is the first hen harrier from this project to have gone missing in Wales and could have an impact on future generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Cathleen Thomas, the project\u2019s manager, said, \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly disappointing to lose yet another hen harrier in these circumstances, especially as this bird is so scarce in the UK. We believe the loss of Aalin and other recently tagged hen harriers in the UK is having a devastating impact on their conservation status.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/hen-harrier\">How to identify a hen harrier<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/environment\/after-a-damning-report-its-time-for-us-to-save-our-wildlife\">More than 350 Welsh species face extinction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The female bird, named Aalin, was brought to Wrexham in 2017 by the LIFE project . It was hoped she would raise chicks during the spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32132\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-32132 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/03\/red-kite-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Diving red kite\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32132 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/03\/red-kite-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Diving red kite\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> The red kite, <em>Milvus milvus<\/em>, like many other birds of prey, is also at risk of illegal persecution.<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">\u00a0\u00a9<\/a><a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to kevin champion's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/124053773@N08\/14045658610\/in\/photolist-npaEXL-eSr1Zy-dbFTF4-i5dPMo-G2aJku-8A6pnB-qYBgtJ-3jvmv7-r6h3XC-B3WBvJ-us7dYf-aAd2En-5CXy2m-QJkGjP-aAfYKq-apZoWw-dZEV9o-62d12p-hs5xrE-nUcBdG-5CVb1T-dRR4Ep-wL6Ruq-aep8b8-oDFfmW-f3vxZv-DLfdaz-a3Qq3e-KzhAd8-LpetSi-Mw17ME-Misfhd-MBcENR-LNRTA2-MfUGoN-WZ7B8k-WJ5RXU-XfDmXD-Wtiwwt-FMQsyS-oK38D-XaBK6m-WJ5QEo-8UE1wi-24UDnfd-24PXCBP-23XQ8Cb-23o8jCE-23j3SMe-Fd5aJe\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\">kevin champion<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aalin is not the only bird in the UK to have gone missing though. A number of hen harriers have disappeared from locations in England and Scotland, with illegal persecution being the most likely cause. Other species are also at risk, with a large number being poisoned or shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHen harriers are facing an uncertain future: these spectacular birds should be flourishing in our uplands but studies show that we are down to just a handful of pairs in England with illegal persecution identified as a prime factor,\u201d says Mark Thomas, RSPB Principal Specialist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have any information about the disappearance of Aalin, you can help by calling North Wales Police on 101 quoting the reference WO28466. If you find a wild bird that you suspect was illegally killed, contact RSPB investigations on 01767 680551.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a rise in illegal killings of rare birds in Wales, police are appealing for information about a missing hen harrier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":32109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[683],"class_list":["post-32075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-environment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police are looking for a missing rare bird - 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