Nottinghamshire Police have issued an appeal for information after the discovery of ‘several dead birds of prey that were seen in suspicious and unnatural circumstances‘ near to the village of Bunny, in the Rushcliffe borough of south Nottinghamshire on Tuesday 10th December 2024.
They said: “We are appealing for the public’s help if you have seen any suspicious animal carcasses while out walking please report them to police and do not allow dogs or other animals to touch them as they may be poisoned.
If you have any information which might assist enquiries it can be reported online or via 101 quoting occurrence number 24000745675“.
They haven’t provided any further detail such as the species involved although their social media post was illustrated with an image of a buzzard.
This is an excellent response from Nottinghamshire Police, not only to gather information during the early phase of an investigation but especially to warn the public of the risk of potential poisons being used that could be a danger to people and their pets.
Hopefully Nottinghamshire Police will provide an update once post mortems and toxicology tests have been undertaken.
Raptor Persecution UK 
At least the police have been quicker to respond in this instance I just hope someone can help find these awful perpetrators . What is wrong with these people WTF is in their heads obviously not a fully functional brain with capacity to care.
They buy hundreds of birds to shoot, for fun, and they can’t bear to have a hawk or fox take one or two. They tell the gamekeeper to take care of it and he dutifully kills everything. It’s a little group telling each other it’s okay, but it’s not okay.