The SCOTTISH OSPREYS

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FROM EXTINCTION TO SURVIVAL

Man has done his best incredibly to drive the osprey from the shores of Scotland. For over forty years the osprey was forced into exile and few ornithologists before the the Second World War thought that this magnificent bird would nest in the British Isles ever again. Philip Brown examines the reasons behind the senseless persecution in the nineteenth century and historical drawings are reproduced to emphasize the attitudes of the day.

It wasn’t until Operation Osprey was launched in the early 1950s under the auspices of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds that a few dedicated pioneers  began fervently to believe that the osprey would return. All the excitements and frustrations which led up to the first successful hatching of two osprey chick is 1954 are described from first-hand experience. The struggle for survival of subsequent breeding pairs and the problems involved in their protection are told with refreshing modesty and humour.

Today, thousands of people each year visit the most popular eyrie at Loch Garten as the osprey continues to flourish in Scotland.

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Authored by Philip Brown and published by the Book Club Associates by arrangement with William Heinemann Ltd. Hard cover bound this Reprint copy is in Fine condition, covered in plastic, with a Fine dust jacket. The size of the book is 252x185x21mm, with 190 pages including an index and select bibliography. 2 maps; 58 b&w photos in text, some full photos.