As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Wednesday 4 June 2014

Swan killer did not know what bird he had beheaded and likes the Queen "very much"

11:00am Tuesday 3rd June 2014 in NewsBy Heloise Wood


A man caught stuffing a headless swan corpse into his rucksack has said he did not know what bird it was.

Hasan Fidan, 46, was fined after an angler snapped him packing the creature into a bag at a beauty spot in Hildenborough.

Bob Morris, who runs a rod company at the Swan Business Park in Sandpit Road, Dartford, watched in horror as Fidan killed the bird.

The incident happened on March 18 at at the scenic 18-acre Bennett's Lake and police later found remnants of the bird in Fidan's freezer.

However the Evening Standard has spoken to Fidan who has revealed he likes the Queen “very much”.

Yesterday (June 2) Fidan told the newspaper: “I did not know what type of bird it was.

"For me it was any type of bird. I didn’t know the Queen owned them.

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