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July 17, 2006
Scottish Ospreys head for Spain
Scottish ospreys are set to check in for a flight to Spain, as part of a reintroduction project organised by the Andalucian Government and the Highland Foundation for Wildlife.
Osprey, Highland, Speyside May 2004. © Steve Round
Five chicks are being collected from locations in Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey and Inverness. The last two will be take from a secret Forestry Commission Scotland forest near Fort Augustus on Thursday, July 13, and taken to join the other three, before being flown by BA Connect to Spain on the early Inverness flight on Friday, July 14.
The reintroduction is part of a combined international conservation partnership between Spain, with donations of young ospreys from Scotland (which is sending five young), Finland (which is sending four young), and Germany (which is sending 12 young). This is the fourth year of the project and already a pair of ospreys has been encouraged to breed near the release area in Andalucia (southern Spain) and they are rearing two young this year. This is the first breeding pair in 60 years on mainland Spain.
Claire Martin, Forestry Commission Scotland Press Office, tel: 0131 314 6507 or email claire.martin@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Posted by Surfbirds at July 17, 2006 10:17 AM
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