As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Wednesday 12 March 2014

RARE BIRDS: Killing of rare eagle shows we have an inbred, backward, hillbilly element

The killing of this and other rare birds might serve as a metaphor for a country which cares for nothing or nobody



The killing of this and other rare birds might serve as a metaphor for a country which cares for nothing or nobody
Dr Allen Mee holds the grim find


The Roman legions carried an eagle on their battle standards and the Americans have an eagle as their national emblem – here we shoot and poison them.

We have the country’s first Irish-bred white-tailed eagle in more than 100 years and some bastard blasts it from the sky with a shotgun.

What does it say about Ireland when there are morons who set out purposely to kill endangered species?

It says we have an inbred, backward, hillbilly element that would not be out of place in the darkest Louisiana swamps.

Many countries are so proud of their eagles they have them as their national emblems.

If we were to do that it would have to be a specimen riddled with bullet holes.

Environmentalists have dreamt for decades of bringing back our great birds of prey and managed to do so in recent years.


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