Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle

Key points

• The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door.
• So how can one fitted with a satellite tracker disappear in prime grouse-shooting country?
• The six police officers arrived at the Snilesworth estate in two pickup trucks last week, according to one account.
• They asked to go up on the moors, a source said, and “so off they went”.
• A vast expanse of spectacularly undulating lands on the western edge of the North York Moors, Snilesworth is globally renowned for its grouse, partridge and pheasant shooting.