A swan found on a town’s high street was later discovered to have been shot in what a wildlife charity has described as “incredibly upsetting”.<\/p>\n
Charity Swan Support said it was called to a swan on Bartholomew Street in Newbury after eyewitnesses had seen it fall from the roof of a building.<\/p>\n
The charity said when the swan was checked over, a suspicious lump was found, and a subsequent X-ray showed three airgun pellets lodged in the swan’s body. It said the swan survived and has since undergone surgery.<\/p>\n
Thames Valley Police said the incident has been filed pending new information coming to light, and said anyone with information should call 101.<\/p>\n
In a statement posted on social media on Thursday, the charity said: “It is incredibly upsetting to think that someone had deliberately targeted this beautiful swan.”<\/p>\n
It continued: “Sadly, this is not an isolated issue. <\/p>\n
“Deliberately targeting or harming swans and other wildlife is a crime, and many of the species we share our rivers and countryside with are protected.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A swan found on a town’s high street was later discovered to have been shot in what a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-798313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}