The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Yesterday we received a finding report of one of the St Wulfram's Peregrines - ringed as a chick at the church in 2009. It would appear that this young male Peregrine was shot near Horncastle in May 2011. Lincolnshire seems to be getting a bad reputation for rare birds of prey being shot - such as the other Peregrine found in the Brayford Pool and Norwegian-ringed Osprey in the last year or so.
Whilst Lincolnshire landowners are generally very positive with their approach to birds of prey, it takes just a few disgraceful instances like this to tarnish that reputation.

Alan

You could also have added that the White tailed Eagle disappeared in mysterious circumstances but there was no corpse, unlike this Peregrine. I know it is now 9 months after the event, but is there any possibility of obtaining a more accurate location, date and finder , to either the police or local birders so enquiries can be made to try and find out more about this killing to see what can be done about preventing a recurrence.

If this has already been done it would be good to know what the result was.

Phil,

I'm trying to find out more info. All I know at the moment is that the bird was injured had to be destroyed and was reported to the BTO by the RSPCA. I don't know the reason for the delay in reporting it. I'll update if/when I find out any more.

Alan