{"id":4012,"date":"2011-05-06T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T08:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:27","slug":"poisoned-golden-eagle-found-in-strathdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/poisoned-golden-eagle-found-in-strathdon\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisoned Golden Eagle found in Strathdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4014\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/eagle3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eagle\" width=\"345\" height=\"262\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4014\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult Golden Eagle<\/p><\/div>Police are investigating the death of a of a young golden eagle which was found poisoned in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p>The bird, which was fitted with a satellite tag, was found on the Glenbuchat Estate in Strathdon. Subsequent tests on the body found the banned pesticide carbofuran.<\/p>\n<p>PC Dave MacKinnon, Grampian&#8217;s wildlife crime officer, told the BBC: &#8220;We are always very concerned when illegal pesticides are used in our countryside for the poisoning of birds of prey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am particularly disappointed that this incident has resulted in the death of a young golden eagle. Articles have been removed from the estate and are being sent for analysis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the death of a of a young golden eagle which was found poisoned in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. The bird, which was fitted with a satellite tag, was found on the Glenbuchat Estate in Strathdon. Subsequent tests on the body found the banned pesticide carbofuran. PC Dave MacKinnon, Grampian&#8217;s wildlife crime officer, told the BBC: &#8220;We are always very concerned when illegal pesticides are used in our countryside for the poisoning of birds of prey. &#8220;I am particularly disappointed that this incident has resulted in the death of a young golden eagle. Articles have been removed from the estate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/poisoned-golden-eagle-found-in-strathdon\/\"><\/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":4014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","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\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22939,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/22939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}