{"id":1879,"date":"2010-06-28T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:11:53","slug":"more-sea-eagles-arrive-for-east-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/more-sea-eagles-arrive-for-east-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sea Eagles arrive for east Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sea-eagle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sea-eagle1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sea-eagle\" width=\"345\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1880\" \/><\/a> Another batch of sea eagle chicks have just been flown in to Edinburgh as part of a reintroduction project for the east of Scotland. The 19 white tailed eagle chicks were welcomed at Edinburgh Airport by Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>The five-week old chicks will stay at a secret location in Fife until they have developed their flight feathers. The RSPB is running the project and has previously introduced sea eagles successfully in the area, following a much longer and successful project on the west coast which began in the 1970s. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Cunningham said, &#8220;The white tailed sea eagle was lost to Scotland in the past and we have a duty to re-establish its presence here. The East of Scotland project is building on what has already been achieved in the west for this amazing species, where it has become a huge tourist attraction. All of this is of course about protecting and restoring our biodiversity; something that is everyone&#8217;s responsibility and to everyone&#8217;s benefit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another batch of sea eagle chicks have just been flown in to Edinburgh as part of a reintroduction project for the east of Scotland. The 19 white tailed eagle chicks were welcomed at Edinburgh Airport by Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham. The five-week old chicks will stay at a secret location in Fife until they have developed their flight feathers. The RSPB is running the project and has previously introduced sea eagles successfully in the area, following a much longer and successful project on the west coast which began in the 1970s. Ms Cunningham said, &#8220;The white tailed sea eagle was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/more-sea-eagles-arrive-for-east-scotland\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22278,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/22278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}