Essex Police are interesting for data after the invention of an injured peregrine within the Highwood space of Chelmsford on fifteenth January 2024.
The wounded chicken was admitted to the South Essex Wildlife Hospital and on examination is believed to have been shot.
I’ve requested for details about the peregrine’s situation and requested whether or not an x-ray had confirmed the chicken had been shot. I’ll update this publish after I hear.
Anyone with data is requested to contact Essex Police on Tel 101.
This latest raptor persecution sufferer is the ninth in Essex in recent years, following the taking pictures of a buzzard in December 2023 (right here), the taking pictures of one other buzzard in January 2023 (right here), the taking pictures of a crimson kite in September 2022 (right here), the taking pictures of one other crimson kite in November 2021 (right here), one other crimson kite discovered lifeless in suspicious circumstances in November 2021 (right here), the taking pictures of one other three buzzards in 2020, one in Dec (right here), one in September (right here) and one in June (right here), and the suspected taking pictures of a Hobby in August 2020 (right here).