A SECOND satellite-tagged hen harrier has gone missing in North Yorkshire just weeks after another one also stopped transmitting a signal.

The hen harrier is a young female bird, one of five tagged at the release site in the Yorkshire Dales on July 30 as part of the hen harrier brood management scheme. The bird is known to the Natural England monitoring team as 183703 and is wearing ring number FJ48404.

It is known from satellite tag data that the bird had the bird stayed in the Hawes area since her release, with one excursion to the Sedbergh area on September 16, then south to the West Pennine Moors near Horwich between September 17 to 19 before returning to land near Semerwater.

The last transmission from the bird was received on the September 29 on Thornton Rust moor, 3.37km east of Semerwater..

Natural England field staff, North Yorkshire Police and Yorkshire Dales National Park rangers have been searching the area.

This appeal for information sadly follows the disappearance of another satellite-tagged hen harrier in the area, this one a juvenile male known as 183704 who was last known to be in the area of Askrigg Common on September 19.

Of the five original birds, three are missing. Police in Durham are searching for the other one.