Little Heron, hooked

Posted by BESG on 10 February 08, Sunday
Contributed by Daniel Koh

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In early January, Daniel Koh came across a dead Little Heron (Butorides striatus) dangling at the end of a fishing line that got entangled on a branch of a casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia) tree in Punggol Park.

The dead Little Heron apparently swallowed a fish still attached to a hook at the end of a fishing line. An angler must have carelessly disposed his line with a bait fish still attached to the hook and the bird must have swallowed the fish and subsequently the line got entangled onto the branch. Stuck to the hook and dangling on the line, the poor bird slowly died from starvation.

The pond in the park is a designated fishing area and anglers are always there. This is an example of what can happen if fishing lines are indiscriminately disposed of.

Image by Daniel Koh and Chan Yoke Meng.


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    2 Comments

    Comment by Randy

    Made Friday, 23 of April , 2010 at 5:20 am

    Wow how many times can you say poor little bird,some people would not rant that much if a child was hanging there.

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    Made Friday, 20 of August , 2010 at 12:06 am

    [...] Check out birds strangled by discarded fishing lines here: owl1 and owl2; hornbill; myna; heron1 and heron2. [...]

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