Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in northern Britain (see, for example, Nicholson 1957). Among the likely factors are the wartime respite from persecution, which probably resulted in a "post-war bulge" of surplus immatures, and the major shift in agricultural emphasis from sheep-rearing to re-afforestation. Benington (1954) recorded the return of the Golden Eagle to Ireland and, though there ...