PUBLISHED: 15:11
26 February 2018 | UPDATED: 16:49 26 February 2018
Police
are investigating the shooting of at least one common buzzard - a legally
protected bird of prey - that was found dead in a Suffolk wood.
Two
buzzard corpses were reported to Suffolk Constabulary’s wildlife crime team in
an incident described by naturalists as “appalling and abhorrent.” The bodies
were found in woodland known as Little Carr, “on the edge of a shooting estate”
on the banks of the River Dove, near Hoxne, the team’s Sgt Brian Calver said
yesterday.
The
discovery was reported by “a person with shooting rights”, but when a police
officer visited the site only one corpse could be found. It was believed that
the birds died in January, he said.
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