Table 1.

Summary of fate classifications from 58 satellite-tracked hen harriers

Classification	Description	No. of birds ascribed to each category (%)
A	Bird alive and tag still transmitting	7 (12%)
N	Bird recovered and cause of death established to be natural	5 (9%)
I	(i) Bird dead, confirmed to have been illegally killed or (ii) tag harness recovered intact with no evidence of bird	4 (7%)
TF	(i) Transmitter malfunctioned (i.e. the tag ceased transmitting but the bird was seen alive) or (ii) tag failure likely due to diagnostic plots	4 (7%)
SNM	Transmitters suddenly stopped with no malfunction detected	38 (66%)