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| Siberian Rubythroat - this bird was photographed in Thailand (photo: JJ Harrison/ Wikimedia Commons) |
A SIBERIAN Rubythroat killed by a cat in Cumbria could achieve posterity by having its corpse stuffed, mounted and displayed in the nature collection at the Tullie House museum in Carlisle.
This is the plan for the bird that was caught and killed in a garden in Brampton earlier this week.
The feline apparently brought the vagrant bird into a house via a catflap in the door, depositing it on a mat before leaving in pursuit of more prey, avian or otherwise.
The pet's owner contacted the RSPB who put her on to Cumbria's county bird recorder who now has the bird safely and hygienically stored in his freezer pending contact with a willing taxidermist.
The unfortunate incident will revive calls for cat-owners to attach bell collars to their pets to alert potential prey.
It is understood the dead bird was seriously underweight and thus unlikely to have survived even if it had evaded the claws of the cat.
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