Big bird on loose in Wales

[Clouded Leopard]

Obviously, it was a Rhea, that's typical of RSPCA!

BBC News - Big bird on loose at Bryn Meadows golf course, Maesycwmer

 

[Maguari]

Blimey - can't tell if it's a rhea or an emu?? Assuming that picture is the bird in question 20 seconds on Google Images will answer that. Indeed, even if not an adult bird shouldn't pose any ID problems at all. How bizarre (more that the Beeb can't answer that question, rather than sometimes-ID-patchy RSPCA, but I suspect someone in the local office is churning out the press release).

 

[Ned]

Whoever wrote that article obviously had a heavy weekend, they start by saying the bird
“has been reunited with its owner”
And finish with
“It is not yet known where the bird has come from.”

 

[Chlidonias]

from the article it seems more like its the reporter being confused. Reading between the lines, the first reports (from the public) were that the bird was an emu but then the RSPCA identified it as a rhea (note there is no actual quote from the RSPCA regarding the bird's identity, just the reporter's interpretation of the situation). Anyone who's ever been the subject of a news article (in print or on film) will know how the reporter screws up whatever you say in a misleading way.

As to the apparently conflicting comments on the origins of the bird, it was the spokespeople for the golf course saying the bird had since been picked up by its owner, and the reporter saying it wasn't known where the bird came from. Not contradictory statements at all - the owner just hadn't been revealed (to the reporter) by the golf course.

 

[OrangePerson]

Or they wrote that they didn't know where it came from and forgot to update it when they added the reunited bit in later!

 

[Zooplantman]

Whoever wrote that article obviously had a heavy weekend, they start by saying the bird
“has been reunited with its owner”

So touching

 

[Ned]

@ zooplantman lol, very good!

@ chlidonias - that would make sence, shame they didn’t mention who the owner was as it would have been interesting to know who that cassowary belonged to.

 

[Chlidonias]

the owner lived on a smallholding about a mile away: BBC News - Rhea at Bryn Meadows golf course, Maesycwmmer, reunited with owner (this is the same article that the link in the original post goes to: now updated with correct identification etc)

 

[Pygathrix]

With a thread title like that, I was expecting something like this: