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.

Thursday 14 August 2014

Bird fans in flap over unusual swift rescued in Devizes

6:30am Tuesday 12th August 2014 in News
By Jill Crooks, Devizes area senior reporter


An unusual coloured swift which is being treated at Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital has created interest.

The silver male bird was taken in by the hospital at Newton Tony, near Salisbury Plain, after it was rescued by a woman in Devizes.

The bird was in the gutter of the woman’s house following storms two weeks ago.

After she put a broom up to it, it crawled on.

The young swift, which is just a few weeks old, is thought to have a bruised right shoulder which the hospital has been treating and will be ready to be released soon.

Staff at the hospital have not seen a swift this colour before and wildlife care supervisor Marilyn Boyes Korkis said: “It’s very unusual, whether it’s the only one in England I don’t know. It’s just the most beautiful bird.”

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