{"id":4109,"date":"2022-07-15T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news-appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:29:16","slug":"appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"paragraph-4011\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--content-with-summary paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-content-with-summary field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>We were alerted to the incident after the bird was discovered on Lochwinnoch Golf Course on 5 April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>An undercover Scottish SPCA special investigations unit inspector said, \u201cIt was initially thought that the bird had been stunned but upon examination at the Scottish SPCA National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, it was discovered that they had been shot. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis caused a catastrophic shoulder injury and sadly resulted in the bird having to be put to sleep. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother member of the public also reported finding another sparrowhawk the week before, which was bleeding from the wing. Unfortunately, that bird died before help could be called for. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unknown if they had also been shot but it\u2019s certainly very suspicious that two sparrowhawks with similar injuries were found in the same area only a week apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working closely with Police Scotland to establish the circumstances around the bird\u2019s injuries due to the use of a firearm in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to find out what happened to this sparrowhawk. If anyone witnessed anything or has any information they feel may be relevant they can contact our confidential animal helpline on 03000 999 999 or Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number KB01540722 of 5 April 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted to the incident after the bird was discovered on Lochwinnoch Golf Course on 5 April 2022. An undercover Scottish SPCA special investigations unit inspector said, \u201cIt was initially thought that the bird had been stunned but upon examination at the Scottish SPCA National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, it was discovered that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigations"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch - Scottish SPCA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We were alerted to the incident after the bird was discovered on Lochwinnoch Golf Course on 5 April 2022. An undercover Scottish SPCA special investigations unit inspector said, \u201cIt was initially thought that the bird had been stunned but upon examination at the Scottish SPCA National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, it was discovered that [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Scottish SPCA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishspca\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-15T10:51:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-07T14:29:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"860\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sspca-admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ScottishSPCA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ScottishSPCA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sspca-admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sspca-admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1c62c08f88d062c55fd7e9244de3ad60\"},\"headline\":\"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-15T10:51:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-07T14:29:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Investigations\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\",\"name\":\"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch - Scottish SPCA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-15T10:51:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-07T14:29:16+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg\",\"width\":860,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/\",\"name\":\"Scottish SPCA\",\"description\":\"cottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Scottish SPCA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo.png\",\"width\":738,\"height\":231,\"caption\":\"Scottish SPCA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishspca\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottishSPCA\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/official_scottishspca\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1c62c08f88d062c55fd7e9244de3ad60\",\"name\":\"sspca-admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a892a4a85f07b1f08273f498724e76262585fb21c0c49df38099658497202bb1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a892a4a85f07b1f08273f498724e76262585fb21c0c49df38099658497202bb1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"sspca-admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/author\/sspca-admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch - Scottish SPCA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch","og_description":"We were alerted to the incident after the bird was discovered on Lochwinnoch Golf Course on 5 April 2022. An undercover Scottish SPCA special investigations unit inspector said, \u201cIt was initially thought that the bird had been stunned but upon examination at the Scottish SPCA National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, it was discovered that [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/","og_site_name":"Scottish SPCA","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishspca","article_published_time":"2022-07-15T10:51:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-07T14:29:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":860,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"sspca-admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ScottishSPCA","twitter_site":"@ScottishSPCA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"sspca-admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/"},"author":{"name":"sspca-admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1c62c08f88d062c55fd7e9244de3ad60"},"headline":"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch","datePublished":"2022-07-15T10:51:25+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-07T14:29:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/"},"wordCount":212,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg","articleSection":["Investigations"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/","name":"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch - Scottish SPCA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg","datePublished":"2022-07-15T10:51:25+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-07T14:29:16+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-07-15T105425.876.jpg","width":860,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/appeal-for-information-after-sparrowhawk-shot-in-lochwinnoch\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Appeal for information after sparrowhawk shot in Lochwinnoch"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/","name":"Scottish SPCA","description":"cottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#organization","name":"Scottish SPCA","url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo.png","width":738,"height":231,"caption":"Scottish SPCA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottishspca","https:\/\/x.com\/ScottishSPCA","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/official_scottishspca"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1c62c08f88d062c55fd7e9244de3ad60","name":"sspca-admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a892a4a85f07b1f08273f498724e76262585fb21c0c49df38099658497202bb1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a892a4a85f07b1f08273f498724e76262585fb21c0c49df38099658497202bb1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"sspca-admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/author\/sspca-admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}