A BIRD watcher is keen
to find out whether the bird he has spotted in Furness is a rare visitor to
these shores.
Jamie Greene (below) has
had a keen interest in watching birds for 20 years and this week sighted a
White Stork – which is very rare in the UK.
Mr Greene, from
Backbarrow, hopes that he can tick-off the bird on the British Ornithologists'
Union British List - the official list of birds recorded in Britain.
It currently has about
500 different species of rare birds on it and Mr Greene hopes he can take his
tally to 28.
He saw the bird roosting
on a lamp post along the Dalton by-pass and said: “I was really excited. We do
get reports of genuine wild birds in the country each year but I wanted to
check first that it was not an escapee from the zoo.”
Mr Greene said he was
told by the zoo that none of their birds were missing and is hoping that it
will be a first for Furness.
White Storks migrate
from northern Europe to winter in Africa – but normally do not fly near
Britain.
A spokesman for the RSPB
told the Gazette that most White Storks spotted in the UK were escapees from
zoos and parks.
No-one from the South
Lakes Wild Animal Park was available for comment as the Gazette went to press.
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