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Reintroducing ospreys to Spain

Animalcouriers were asked to help with an exciting project reintroducing ospreys to Spain. The project involves teams in Inverness (Scotland) and in Pego and Madrid (Spain). We're quite experienced with young raptors now, having helped in previous years with osprey chicks going to Spain and Switzerland, and red kite chicks heading to Spain. Chick selection The osprey chicks were born in Inverness at the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation. They were carefully watched over by wildlife officer Ian, who selected 12 of them to travel to Pego, near Denia. Ian selecting chicks An osprey chick close up Chicks on the road [...]

By |2025-10-02T15:03:59+01:00Thursday, October 2, 2025|wild bird air travel|8 Comments
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32 red kite chicks fly from the UK to Spain

Animalcouriers recently had the good fortune to be help 32 red kite chicks fly from the UK to Spain. The move was part of an ongoing conservation project between the two countries to boost the bird's numbers in Spain. It's not the first time we've helped move raptors — we've worked with red kites before and also with ospreys. As we've done for previous raptor moves, we provided the flight boxes, which were fitted out to give keep the birds calm and protect the chicks' wings and feathers from possible damage as they moved around. We moved the red kite chicks in [...]

By |2024-06-24T10:46:09+01:00Monday, June 24, 2024|wild bird air travel|18 Comments
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Helping to re-establish ospreys in Spain

We were delighted to be asked again to help transport osprey chicks in a project to re-establish ospreys in Spain. The project, put together by the RSPB in conjunction with their counterparts in Spain, involves transporting young birds from the Scottish Highlands to Denia. Osprey experts sourced birds from this year's chicks based on criteria such as the strength of the individual birds, and their capability to pair and settle down to help establish the population in Spain. The journey started at midnight on day one, as Courier Huw and Pedro, an osprey expert from Spain, loaded up the [...]

By |2023-10-06T10:21:25+01:00Friday, October 6, 2023|TRACES, wild bird air travel|21 Comments
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Red kite chicks fly from England to Spain

Animalcouriers is very proud to be involved in a conservation project to fly red kite chicks from England to Spain. A project that started 30 years ago It's a wonderful and extraordinary story that started more than 30 years ago. At that time, young red kites were brought from thriving populations in Spain to England, to boost the British numbers which had declined to just 42 breeding pairs. That project was so successful — the most successful raptor restoration project in Europe — that there are now more than 6,000 breeding pairs in Britain. So now that Spanish numbers have [...]

By |2022-07-01T09:36:08+01:00Friday, June 24, 2022|wild bird air travel|12 Comments
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Young ospreys travel from Scotland to Spain and Switzerland

In 2013 and 2014 Animalcouriers helped to organise the transfer of osprey chicks from Scotland to Spain. This year we were very pleased to be asked to help again with this important and interesting osprey conservation project. In July, Roy Dennis of the Highland Foundation for Wildlife in Scotland, and Dr Aitor Galarza of Urdabai Bird Center near Bilbao, organised the transfer of 13 osprey chicks to the centre. The birds flew with BA from Aberdeen to Madrid via London Heathrow. Roy is also involved in a new project to reintroduce ospreys to Switzerland, about 100 years after the last breeding osprey [...]

By |2016-10-17T10:49:40+01:00Wednesday, August 19, 2015|wild bird air travel|0 Comments
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