Malle A hunter Saturday in Westmalle is a free-flying parrot shot. Joseph Verdyck, owner of parrot Rambo, has reported to the police. “The training of my pet parrot to free fly a bird has thousands of euros cost but the loss of Rambo’s with no money to make,” says Verdyck.
Joseph Verdyck is a bird lover which is home to four parrots. An older couple and two young ones: Rambo, and Mero. The two young parrots from the egg ready to ‘free flying bird’. This is Joseph in a group of “Free Flight”- lovers.
“Rambo is after three years, a veteran free flight bird. According to experts, he is one of the best trained parrots in Belgium. He should together with Mero every day, fly out in the summer a little longer than in the winter. Before we go often to a field in the St-Jobbaan in Westmalle. The farmer gave us the authorisation is given. Everyone in the neighborhood knows our parrots”, Joseph Verdyck know.
sat night were some hunters in the area. One of them saw the bird flying and brought him down. According to Joseph Verdyck have hunting dogs, the bird then torn up and broken its neck. The hunter let the dead parrot behind to a stream.
