The white-tailed eagle was extirpated from the British Isles by 1918, the last breeding pair shot in Scotland. Reintroduction programs beginning in the 1970s on Rum and later across southern England have brought the population back to several hundred pairs — a recovery that took longer than a human lifetime.
The white-tailed eagle was extirpated from the British Isles by 1918, the last breeding pair shot in Scotland. Reintroduction programs beginning in the 1970s on Rum and later across southern England have brought the population back to several hundred pairs — a recovery that took longer than a human lifetime.