juvenile White-tailed Sea Eagle

Utilising the information kindly provided by Alan Lewis and Nick Montegriffo, I have endeavoured to trace the origins of the juvenile White-tailed Sea Eagle currently residing in Hampshire. If it is not from the Weyhill Raptor onservancy Centre as suggested, it is possible it is from Eastern Germany, Poland or Finland. I have directly emailed all of those people currently involved in TSE ringing schemes and hope to be able to report back to you all shortly with some detail.

I have just checked the Raptor registry detailing all White-tailed Sea Eagle importations since 1998. There have been just 31 ‘legal’ imports, all birds being registered and ‘ringed/certified’ – 12 from Norway in 1998 (for reintroduction), 1 from Israel in 1999, 3 from Kazakhstan and 5 from Russia in 2001, 1 from Poland in 2002 and 9 from Kazakhstan in 2004. I can trace just 14 captive/zoo/collection White-tailed Sea Eagles in Britain.

Can anyone kindly supply me with details from elsewhere in Europe (eg from Belfast Zoo where I am told there are several, and in the Netherlands and West Germany)