Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation: hands-on conservation
There's a lot of talk about conservation, but this really is the hands-on kind. Follow wildlife conservation in the field, as Roy Dennis, based in the Highlands of Scotland, works with his team on the restoration of species in the UK and abroad.
Podcasting since 2019 • 18 episodes
Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation: hands-on conservation
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A honey buzzard on its first migration
The honey buzzard is one of Britain's most enigmatic and elusive birds, poorly named (being neither a buzzard nor an eater of honey) and under-reported. In August, Roy Dennis and his team, having discovered a honey buzzard nest in woodlan...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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White-tailed eagles: a project milestone
The project to reintroduce white-tailed eagles to the Isle of Wight continues, and in this - the second year of five - seven birds have been released. This podcast picks up the story from when they were taken south from Scotland to their ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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19:21
White-tailed eagles: from Scotland to the Isle of Wight
In the previous podcast, Ian Perks described his work collecting eagles for translocation from nests in the Western Isles to a new home on the Isle of Wight. Now, the chicks safely collected, it's time to care for them while they wait to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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22:39
White-tailed eagles: collecting chicks for translocation
In early August 2020, seven white-tailed eagles were released on the Isle of Wight in the second year of a five-year project to establish a breeding population there. Using an audio diary recorded by Ian Perks of the Roy Dennis Wildlife F...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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20:10
White-tailed eagles, one year on: learning the landscape
It's exactly a year since the release of six white-tailed eagles on the Isle of Wight, a return to a place where they last bred in 1780. It's a good moment, then, to take a look at the progress of the birds released in 2019, and to hear a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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