Two white-tailed eagle chicks have fledged from Kerry for the fifth year in a row.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service and Killarney National Park say two juvenile chicks fledged the nest this week, and are finding their bearings along the shoreline.
It means the resident adult pair of white-tailed eagles on Lough Lein in Killarney National Park has bred and fledged chicks for five consecutive years now.
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The species was once extinct in Ireland, but a reintroduction programme began at Killarney National Park in 2007.
245 chicks were reintroduced between 2007 and 2025 which have dispersed widely throughout Ireland, and it’s now estimated there are approximately 150 individual eagles in the wild in Ireland.
