Mr Rutland, formally known by his ring number of 03(97), was a male osprey who was born in Scotland in 1997 and nested every summer near Rutland Water, England, from 1999 to 2015.
Having been extinct in England since the 1840s, ospreys were re-introduced to the country from 1996 by the Rutland Osprey project, which translocated birds from Scotland to Rutland Water. Mr Rutland was born in Scotland in 1997 and was translocated to Rutland Water that summer, part of the second batch of ospreys introduced to England. Having built his nest in 2000, Mr Rutland bred for the first time in 2001, raising a single chick with an unringed female at a nest on private land, close to the reservoir. He continued to breed every year up to 2014. By 2015, he had migrated in excess of 100,000 miles (160,000 km).[1] He failed to return in 2016 at the age of 18.[2]