NATIONAL Parks and Wildlife Service staff at Killarney National Park have announced that White Tailed Eagles have again nested in the Old Oak woodlands of Killarney National Park.

This is not the first time that such an event has happened in the Park. Over the past 10 years White Tailed Eagles have sporadically nested and successfully fledged young back to the wild from nest sites located within Killarney National Park.

Killarney National Park was the first release site for the White Tailed Eagle reintroduction phase 1 in 2007. This flagship reintroduction project now has White Tailed Eagle nest sites in Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Clare and Galway.

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Divisional Manager National Parks and Wildlife Service, Éamonn Meskell, said; “Killarney National Park is particularly suitable for White Tailed Eagles because of a readily available fish supply from the Lakes of Killarney. Also, the habitat is particularly suitable with a plentiful and healthy suite of Woodlands and suitable trees within those woodlands to accommodate White Tailed Eagle nest sites.”

Éamonn continued “This apex predator is now firmly establishing itself into the landscape and ecosystem and is a credit to the sterling work that National Parks and Wildlife Service staff have put into this project over the past 16 years.”

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