Young couple save injured shag
After getting married earlier in the day, a young Christchurch couple were ready to walk 33km to save an injured bird from “having its throat cut.” Alan and Karen Shannon, pictured above with the bird, were married on Wednesday, then went to Waikuku Beach where with other members of the wedding party they found a spotted shag, a protected bird, with a fractured wing. They said one of the party was threatening to kill the
shag so they started walking back to Christchurch with it. “We were given a lift to a police station and were told the telephone number for the Avian Welfare Project (a clinic for sick and injured birds),” they said. Honey, the name t the . couple have given the shag, -is recovering at the clinic with a steel plate in its wing. The director at the clinic said the bird may have been subject to stone throwing and its wound may take three weeks to heal.
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Press, 13 February 1982, Page 1
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