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Pic: RSPCA/BNPS<br />
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The pellet pictured in the x-ray of the tragic swan<br />
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A swan was 'brutally' killed after it was shot in the eye by a thug with an air rifle.<br />
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The defenceless male bird was struck while its partner was sitting on their eggs on a nest on the water at Holes Bay, in the coastal town of Poole, Dorset. <br />
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Animal-lovers raised the alarm after they spotted the injured swan waddling around with a ruptured eye and blood on the side of its head. <br />
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It was rescued and taken to a vets where an X-ray showed the fatal air gun pellet lodged in the bird's neck.

BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833
Pic: RSPCA/BNPS

The pellet pictured in the x-ray of the tragic swan

A swan was 'brutally' killed after it was shot in the eye by a thug with an air rifle.

The defenceless male bird was struck while its partner was sitting on their eggs on a nest on the water at Holes Bay, in the coastal town of Poole, Dorset.

Animal-lovers raised the alarm after they spotted the injured swan waddling around with a ruptured eye and blood on the side of its head.

It was rescued and taken to a vets where an X-ray showed the fatal air gun pellet lodged in the bird's neck.