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November 2015
A
shot and wounded bird of prey has been released back into the wild after a year
of rehabilitation work on a wing and foot.
The
peregrine falcon was found in Long Melford, Suffolk and vets removed six pieces
of lead shot from her.
She
has been nursed back to flying condition at the Raptor Foundation near St Ives,
Cambridgeshire.
Simon
Dudhill, foundation manager, said: "This release was better than we could
have imagined - she'll be fine."
The
bird was found by a member of the public near a stream in August 2014 and the
foundation said it had taken hundreds of hours of work to get her ready for her
return to the wild.
"The
biggest problem was the pellet that was in the toe - and at that stage we
didn't know if that foot, which is needed to catch prey, would ever work
again," said Mr Dudhill.
"We
will do all we can to combat this evil, for want of a better word, of people
shooting these birds."
Upon
release, the bird flew above a neighbouring field and immediately chased a
pigeon.
She
failed to catch it, but the centre said she was later spotted carrying a dead
one.
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