Four stork chicks whose mother was shot dead by a hunter in Shimane Prefecture will be raised at a specialist breeding facility, a local education board said Sunday.
Four stork chicks whose mother was shot dead by a hunter in Shimane Prefecture will be raised at a specialist breeding facility, a local education board said Sunday.
The storks, a species designated as a special national treasure, will be raised at the facility in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, until they are mature and ready to be released into the wild.
The Unnan city education board said observational logs showed the chicks’ father had continued to feed them after their mother was killed, but it is believed that this would not continue, leading to the decision to relocate the chicks.
