| Banding teams either rappelled or climbed to eyries that contained young. |
| The farmers and dalesmen were always careful to plunder the eyries, but not without considerable risk to life and limb. |
| A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers. |
| It dens down in rocky cairns, under tree roots, sometimes even in the disused eyries of a golden eagle. |
| Over 100 eyries were known in Britain and at least 50 in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century. |
| Gray and Sir Humphrey Davy watched the eagles in their eyries, and the former tells how he saw them robbed of their young. |
