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.

Sunday, 19 November 2017

Shock as beautiful protected swan cruelly 'blasted from close range'


X-rays confirmed the bird was "covered in pellets" and left on the cliff-tops near Bempton


Daniel Kemp
13:24, 10 NOV 2017
UPDATED13:26, 10 NOV 2017

A swan has been shot dead close to a popular East Riding bird-watching reserve.

X-rays confirmed the bird, which is a protected species, was “covered in pellets” and had been “blasted from fairly close range”. Killing a swan is a criminal offence

The Whooper swan had just made a 1,000-mile trip from Iceland for the winter, but was found covered in blood after a close-range shooting on a cliff-top near Bempton.

It was found on fields between the RSPB site at Bempton Cliffs and the village of Buckton.

RSPCA inspector and national wildlife officer co-ordinator, Geoff Edmond, said: “I feel outraged that this has happened.

 “These birds come down predominantly from Iceland from October onwards to spend the winter months here. In other words this bird is likely to have flown around a thousand miles to suffer this terrible fate.

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