#Eaglecam

Roy is up the Scottish hills with two golden eagles to help bring down mountain hare numbers - and to try out the #eaglecam he has designed. It goes on the back of the eagle allowing the viewer literally to ride on the back of an eagle when it makes a kill. The mountain hare is dying out in some areas due to global warming, but in others it is in pest proportions.

While the BBC had trouble producing a stable image from the back of a golden eagle for its Planet Earth II series - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/artic... - Roy cracked the problem.

Go behind the scenes of the making of our film with this 360 film on YouTube:    • Riding on the back of an Eagle 360 #b...  

For #Eaglecam 2, visit    • #Eaglecam 2 - Hunting blue hares in S...  

For still pictures from this film, go to https://www.flickr.com/photos/fieldsp...

This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 377. To watch the whole show go to http://Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain377

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Why shoot Mountain hare?

There are thought to be more than 432,500 Mountain Hares in the UK. Mountain hares thrive on heather moorland and can reach particularly high densities on managed grouse moors. At high densities the species can cause damage to agricultural crops and young forestry.

The active management of heather moorland including predator control and rotational burning, provides excellent habitat for both red grouse and mountain hares, both species feeding on young heather shoots.

Hares can sustain high levels of ticks and the tick-borne louping-ill virus, bringing them into conflict with red grouse. Therefore, hare numbers may need to be sensitively managed to suppress parasitic ticks and diseases such as Lyme disease.