This is a blog that features the movements of eagles reared in Scotland and fitted with satellite-received transmitters. This effort to better understand eagle dispersal is being undertaken by Natural Research and its partners: the Highland Foundation for Wildlife, the RSPB, SNH and the Scottish Raptor Study Groups. Eagles have been tracked since fledging and data from them will form part of a Natural Research funded PhD by Ewan Weston at Aberdeen University.

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Monday 12 December 2011

57115: 28 Nov- 5 Dec 2011

57115: This eagle has only taken short flights during this period.

57109: 25 Nov- 10 Dec 2011

57109: This eagle has stayed in the central Grampian mountians for the 2 week period shown.

Tuesday 15 November 2011

57115:16 Oct- 14 Nov 2011

57115: Unlike 57109, this eagle has remained in a small area of Scotland not travelling large distances.

57109:15 Oct-14 Nov 2011

57109: This map shows the eagle movements over the past month- there is a wide range of movements in the highlands of Scotland.

Thursday 3 November 2011

57115: 10-31 Oct 2011

57115: This eagle has stayed in the same area for nearly a month.  

57109: 13- 24 Oct 2011

57109: This eagle has travelled further north in the past couple of weeks. Sometime staying in the same area for a couple of days or so.

Thursday 22 September 2011

57115: 5-19 Sep 2011

The satellite tagging of this eagle over the past two weeks has shown frequent short flights. Flights tend to be about 5 miles in length with the occasional one a little longer.

57109: 10-18 Sep 2011

This eagle has remained in a very simular place to other previous weeks with only one ranging movement in a south-westerly direction, then back again into the same area.

Monday 12 September 2011

57115: 28 Aug- 06 Sep 2011

57115: The last locations we have for this eagle show it moving south again. As the crow flys this is a journey of about 24 miles, we will have to see if the next map shows anymore movement in a southerly direction.

57109:27 Aug- 12 Sep 2011

57109: All of the flightlines of this eagle have stayed within a small area over the past two weeks. We have had good locations and many fligthlines within this period.  

Tuesday 23 August 2011

57115: 9-20 August 2011

This eagle has moved around the eastern Cairngorm region throughout the spring and summer, this map shows the eagles movements over an 11 day period and is constant with other movements it has made recently.

57109: 12-21 August 2011

This eagle remains in the central highlands with no ranging movements in the period of these signals.

Tuesday 26 July 2011

57115: 10-26 July 2011

This eagle has made no large movement over the past 2 weeks much the same as 57109.

57109: 9-25 July 2011

There has been no large ranging movements from this eagle in the past two weeks. The eagle has stayed in the same area.

Friday 15 July 2011

57115: 5-15 July 2011

This bird has moved slightly further south in recent weeks but with more ranging movements. 

57109: 5-15 July 2011


This eagle has moved further north and east in recent weeks. In comparison to the last time the eagle was viewed it is moving in a more confined area.

Friday 24 June 2011

57115: 6-14 June 2011

This bird has moved down to the south-eastern Cairngorms where it was located a couple of weeks ago. (57115)

57109: 12-19 June 2011

 This eagle has remained in the same area for the last few weeks now, making many short flights within a relatively confined area. (57109)

Monday 20 June 2011

57115:6-14 June 2011

This young eagle has remained in the eastern Highlands; after making the journey northwards only the other week the bird has headed south again (57115).

57109: 5-16 June 2011

This eagle has stayed in the central Highlands over the past week. There seems to have been many frequent short flights in this area. (57109)

Friday 10 June 2011

57115: 30 May- 07 June 2011

After travelling north the week before last this bird seems to like this area and just like the other eagle (57111) has made localised movements. (57115)

57111: 24- 30 May 2011

There has been only localised movement of this bird in recent weeks. (57111)

57109: 30 May- 4 June 2011

Over the past 7 days there has been quite a lot of movement from this bird, especially in comparison to the others on this blog. (57109)

Thursday 2 June 2011

57115: 15-30 May 2011

This eagle spent the past couple of week in the eastern Cairngorms (Deeside) area but the eagle seem to have made the journey north on the 23rd May, where it has spent the last week. (57115)

57111: 24- 30 May 2011

This eagle has taken short journeys in the past week. There has only been one short journey southwards on the 27th May but then the eagle returned to area it spent the previous week in. (57111)

57109: 22-27 May 2011

This eagle is only moving short distances at the moment, the longest flight measued about 3 km. (57109)

Friday 27 May 2011

57115:13-23 May 2011

This bird remained the area in the south east Cairngorms but in the past couple of days has moved further north again. (57115)

57111: 9-24 May 2011

After the past few months travelling north and south of Inverness this bird hass spend the last week in the highlands south of Inverness. It seem to have settled in this area for the past couple of week. (57111)

57109: 21- 27 May 2011

This bird as made frequent movements in a relatively small area in central Scotland over the past week. (57109)

Friday 20 May 2011

57115: 10-17 May 2011

This eagle has spent the last 9 days travelling in a southerly direction in the eastern Cairngorms. Signals have been of good frequency in the past 4 days.

57111: 3-9 May 2011

This bird has travelled south from the northern Highlands recently and remains in this area.

57109: 9-15 May 2011

This bird isn't travelling more than 5km at a time from what we can see from the satellite tags, staying inthe same area for the past 9 days.

Thursday 28 April 2011

57115: 16-24 April 2011

This eagle has remained in the north-east of Scotland, venturing from Moray to Aberdeenshire. (57115)

57111: 11-26 April 2011

This eagle seems to have restricted it movements this week, with only one long flight towards the west coast of Scotland. The others are based in the northern Cairngorm region. (57111)

57109: 15-24 April 2011

There seems to be much less extensive movements from the eagles this week. This eagle looks like it has recently moved into the Moray region. (57109)

Friday 22 April 2011

57115: 10-19 April 2011

This eagle has moved about the eastern Cairngorms and Moray area, even along the Dee Valley! (57115)

57109: 9-17 April 2011

This eagle has been very busy travelling from central to western Scotland over the past month, there has beena high density of points picked up in some locations but other individual points show a single visit. (57109)

57109: 11-19 April 2011

This eagle has remained in the central Cairngorm area over the past month but had lots of small journeys to many places! (57109)

Tuesday 29 March 2011

57115: 12-22 March 2011

This eagle doesn't seem to have journeyed as far as the other 2 we are tracking on this blog, remaining in the eastern Cairngorms. (57115)

57111: 16-23 March 2011

(57111) This eagle seems to be heading north towards Caithness and Sutherland.

57109: 19-27 March 2011

This individual has been on the move a lot recently but especially in the Cairngorms. (57109)

Friday 11 March 2011

57115: 26 Feb- 7 March 2011



This male was tagged in mid Deeside last year. He has not travelled as much as the other eagles tagged but we will wait and see!

57111: 21 Feb- 7 March 2011


This female was tagged in the Angus Glens during the summer of 2010. Over the past month she has travelled across to the West Coast of Scotland and then even further north!

57109: 26 Feb - 7 March 2011

This is the chick that was tagged in the summer of 2010 in Deeside, Scotland. The flightline of this juvenile eagle shows alot of movement from the bird over the past 3 weeks.