Animal carers from WIRES are pleading with farmers to modify their barbed wire fences to help stop wild animals from becoming entangled.
The latest victim was this endangered masked owl, discovered with its wing caught on a fence at Fernleigh.
“We actually had to take a large chunk of tissue out of the wing and stitch it closed”
If the bird’s wing can’t be rehabilitated well enough for it to be released back into the wild, it will have to be put down.
“You can do some things to lessen the impact on wildlife for example change the top wire strand to a plain wire or even cover it with some split poly-pipe”
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