Rangers’ high rise match making

1239360682 P5ksq S Rangers’ high rise match makingWildlife rangers went up in the world to help a frisky osprey bachelor entice a mate. The first of three new artificial osprey platforms was erected by the Forestry Commission in Kielder Water & Forest Park, Northumberland.

Wildlife rangers donned their harnesses and scaled a 20 metre spruce to lop the top of the tree with

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Mouth swabs to probe rare blood lines

1182395927 28fNK S Mouth swabs to probe rare blood linesGoshawk chicks in Kielder Water & Forest Park are having their mouths swabbed in a bid to discover more about the creature’s blood lines in the 62,000 hectare (155,000 acre) Northumberland wilderness.

The bird, once persecuted to extinction and which reappeared in Kielder in the 1960s, is one of the rarest in

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Your chance to meet Keilder’s Osprey family

912877022 UT73F S Your chance to meet Keilder’s Osprey familyThree osprey chicks are ready to make more natural history in Northumberland – and now youngsters are being invited to suggest names for each of them.

The record breaking birds in Kielder Water & Forest Park are the second brood to hatch in the north east after their siblings successfully fledged year

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Film released of history making ospreys

Stunning new footage of Northumberland’s record breaking ospreys has been released by the Kielder Partnership. The adult osprey’s have been re-united in 155,000 acre Kielder Water & Forest Park after making their separate ways back from sub-Saharan Africa.

Last year the couple entered the record books by raising the first osprey chicks born in the North East of England for at least 200 years.

Now one of the two cameras trained on the nest –

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Osprey couple back at Kielder

831736488 kovhv S Osprey couple back at KielderKielder Water & Forest Park’s record breaking ospreys are a couple once again!

The Kielder Partnership can reveal that the female bird – who mothered three chicks last year, the first born in the North East of England for at least 200 years – has returned to the same nest she used last year, where she

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Osprey alert at Kielder

802242250 7VZt9 S Osprey alert at KielderRangers in Kielder Water & Forest Park are scanning the skies for the return of ospreys which last year nested in Northumberland for the first time in at least 200 years. The Kielder Partnership says it’s likely that the iconic birds will return to nest once again in the 62,000 hectare (155,000 acre) Northumberland wilderness, after the pair

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