The 'grandmother' to 130 grand-chicks from two decades of breeding in Snowdonia has not come back from its winter home in Africa
Fears are growing for an osprey called Mrs G, which has played an incomparable role in repopulating Britain with the magnificent birds of prey, and has gone missing. In nearly two decades of returning to Snowdonia every spring, the bird has hatched 52 eggs and become a "grandmother" to at least 130 chicks.
“We’ve not given up hope,” said Glaslyn visitor centre manager Heather Corfield. “But as each days passes, it’s looks a little less optimistic." Mrs G's breeding record has been prolific. At first producing just two or three eggs each season, in more recent years it provided at least 60 eggs, 52 of which are known to have hatched. The bird, if alive, is thought now to be 22 or 23 years old.
The reasons why the bird is late returning include that it may have been blown off course by storms during the 3,000-mile migration from west Africa or that it may have died. Possible causes include poisoning or being caught in fishing nets, as happened to a young Welsh osprey in West Gambia a few years ago.
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