A young swan has been left with a ‘permanent hole’ in his tongue as RSPCA officers are seeing a surge in the need to rescue birds from fishing tackle.
Along with the swan, a pigeon was left dangling from a tree at a popular Greater Manchester park last week. The charity says roughly half of all litter-related calls last year were to do with animals getting stuck in fishing tackle.
It’s prompted the charity to to renew its calls to anglers to be responsible when discarding their kit. In one rescue, firefighters were even called to help the RSPCA.
