Joel
Lamy
15:36Sunday
29 November 2015
Birdwatchers
have raised £2,200 to find out more information on the shooting of a rare
red-footed falcon which was found dead near Whittlesey last month.
The
news service Rare Bird Alert, which called the killing ‘scandalous’, is adding
its money to the £1,000 sum put up by the RSPB to encourage people with
information on the shooting to come forward.
The
money has been raised in the last few days with £1,800 donated in the first 24
hours of the donation page being launched.
A
post-mortem examination carried out after the body was passed to the RSPB has
confirmed that the bird, a young (sub-adult) male, had been recently shot and
that this was the cause of death.
The
Rare Bird Alert said the falcon had spent a month at Chatterley Whitfield
Colliery in Staffordshire and nearly the same amount of time at Willow Tree Fen
near Spalding.
In
a statement it said: “A scarce annual visitor to Britain, this beautiful bird
was confiding and gave wonderful views - and much joy - to the large number of
people who saw it.
“We
applaud the RSPB’s response, and the tireless and often thankless work they do
trying to bring to justice those who illegally persecute our protected birds of
prey.
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