A red kite is lucky to be alive after being blasted with a shotgun in Shropshire. The kite is currently being cared for by the RSPCA.
A member of the public watched the bird ‘spiralling out of the sky’ before it crash landed into an electric fence in a field in Sleap, near Shrewsbury, on Saturday. The bird was taken to the RSPCA Stapely Grange Wildlife Centre where an x-ray revealed shotgun pellets in its body.
The RSPCA say the bird is responding to treatment but it’s still too early to know whether it will survive.
Anyone with information about this shooting is urged to contact the RSPCA on: 0300-123-8018
News story here
Raptor Persecution UK 