The Osprey Pandion haliaetus, once in historical decline due to illegal hunting and egg collecting has seen an increase in recent years due to the success of several reintroduction schemes. In the UK, there are now 200-250 breeding pairs, which can be found populating quiet lochs and lochans throughout Scotland, North Wales and Rutland. One adaptation which they only share with owls, Ospreys can reverse their outer toes to grasp either side of a slippery fish and will manoeuvre their catch in flight to face the direction of travel, streamlining their flight.
Neil McIntyre's work is widely published and used in many national magazines like the BBC Wildlife magazine and national newspapers. Organisations like the Scottish Natural Heritage, the Cairngorms National Park Authority and the John Muir Trust are also amongst my clients. In addition to these, his images have also featured in over 25 books.
Over the years Neil has been fortunate to have won several awards in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition including the Eric Hoskings Award in two consecutive years, he also been a category runner up and had a further four images highly commended. In the British Wildlife Photography Awards Neil won the portraits category with an image of a red deer stag, with a further 4 other images having been highly commended in that competition to date.
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