'Rare' male hen harrier spotted flying over North Yorkshire Moors

'Rare' male hen harrier spotted flying over North Yorkshire Moors

The British Trust for Ornithology describe the species as "beautiful" with ghostly grey males and the brown, white-rumped females.

138 hen harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors

For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of hen harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue of crime that suggests otherwise. This male hen harrier died in 2019 after his leg was almost severed in an illegally set trap that had been placed next to his nest on a Scottish grouse moor (see here). Photo by Ruth Tingay This is the blog I now pub…