A bird found dead on a beach on Kangaroo Island
appears to have been shot.
The osprey, a rare species in South Australia,
was found by a member of the public on Brownlow Beach, near Kingscote.
Rob Ellis of the South Australian Environment
Department said there was a wound consistent with the bird having been fired
at.
"It's really distressing because these
animals they're rare, so they're declining in South Australia and to actually
have a sub-adult killed maliciously is, you know, really quite
distressing," he said.
Mr Ellis said osprey numbers were already in
decline due to issues such as insecticide use and nest disturbance.
"We're just coming out of the breeding
season, so September, October and part of November is the breeding season for
these birds. And the sad thing is that if this animal had been involved in a
breeding event, the chicks may have been doomed to also perish," he said.
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