This is a remarkable statistic and demonstrates clearly the role responsible gamekeeping plays in providing food and good breeding conditions for golden eagles in Scotland.
SGA Gamekeepers have not only played a role in providing donor birds. They have also worked with the project to provide food for the eagles as they grow and look to establish breeding territories.
NatureScot revealed earlier this month that the population is now the highest it has been in the area for 300 years, at 46 birds.
The news comes just months after SGA eagle surveys, repeated now 3 times, showed an increase in eagle nests on gamekeeper-managed ground from 58 nests in 2015 to 91 in 2022.
That amounts to a 57% increase in 7 years and, in the Cairngorms National Park, there are now 37 active eagle nests on land managed by gamekeepers.
You can read more on this, here: https://www.scottishgamekeepers.co.uk/latest-news/2023/2023-04-21-huge-increase-in-eagle-nests-on-gamekeeper-managed-ground.php