A young white-tailed eagle has been on a grand tour of the island of Ireland, flying through 26 counties in 48 days.
Aspen, a bird hatched last year in Glengarriff Nature Reserve in County Cork as part of a reintroduction programme, set off from its birthplace on 22 March.
Over the following seven weeks a satellite tracker recorded its movements, revealing an aerial odyssey that took it through Leinster, Ulster and Connaught, before eventually returning to its native Munster.
During its time in Northern Ireland, the animal - which belongs to the largest bird of prey species in the UK and Ireland - visited counties Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Londonderry and Fermanagh.
Since the white-tailed eagle reintroduction programme started in 2007, Clare Heardman, an ecologist with National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), has helped to track and monitor countless birds.
