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A White-tailed Eagle among the cliffs
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Image details:  
Image Description: A White-tailed Eagle among the cliffs
Image notes: This female was still in Fair Isle in April, but the eagles never returned to Shetland the next year.
Species in Image: White Tailed Eagle
Date: 1969
Area: Fair Isle
Old Haa Image Reference Number: btc00664

General details:  
Common Name White Tailed Eagle
Latin Name Haliaeetus albicilla
Shetland Name Erne
Latin Group Name Falconiformes
Latin Family Name Accipitridae
Common Family Name Kites, Eagles, Harriers, Buzzards and Hawks
Description The last pair of ernes to nest in Shetland had their eyrie at the Neaps of Graveland (Yell) in 1910. In 1968 an attempt was made to re-establish them using young birds from Norway. This was not successful.
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