Sea Eagles In The UK

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Sea eagles became extinct in England about 250 years ago - before the Industrial Revolution - but in Scotland the last birds died out in the early twentieth century.

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In the 1970s, a few pairs were imported from Europe into the Western Isles of Scotland in order to attract wildlife tourists to remote and rural parts of the Highlands and Islands.

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Since then, their numbers have soared and they now pose an increasing menace to farm animals and native wild animals, and potentially also to domestic pets.

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It is only because of the relatively unpopulated nature of western Scotland that the dangers from these enormous predatory birds have not become more widely known throughout the UK.