Royal estate linked to many deaths and disappearances of protected birds

Cases linked to king's Sandringham estate in Norfolk include alleged poisoning and shooting of some of UK's rarest birds of prey

King Charles's private country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk has been linked to the deaths and disappearances of a string of legally protected birds over the past two decades, a Guardian investigation has found.

The cases include the alleged poisoning, shooting and disappearance of some of the UK's rarest birds of prey. One of the cases involved the mysterious loss of eastern England's last breeding female montagu's harrier, a critically endangered species whose future in the UK is now looking bleak.