Rogers Tennis Tournament Can’t Move Rotting Carcasses
There are at least three hanging carcasses of dead blue herons in the trees above the Rogers tennis tournament… and despite complaints about the smell and worries the dead bird might fall on a passersby, the Vancouver Parks Board won’t move them.
This, they say, is due to concerns that removing it could endanger the entire colony of protected birds.
One of the dead heron is dangling in a tree above a path between tennis courts at Stanley Park. Monday brought a pungent odor, which drew even more attention to it.
It’s not clear just how long the heron has been there, but the city’s parks board says the young bird likely fell out of the tree and died – not uncommon for the large colony, which has lost about 40 fledglings this year.
Because the great blue heron is a protected species in B.C., they even extend that protection to dead ones I guess.
