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In the newest development of a recent and disturbing trend in Southern California, five more wild parrots were found mutilated in the San Gabriel Valley, some of which were beyond saving.
Local wildlife rescuer Cleo Watts said that these birds, all part of an endangered species, were found in a makeshift birdcage left on the railroad tracks in El Monte.
“Three of them had to be euthanized immediately, some with multiple fractures, one with lacerations on the left part of the body,” Watts told KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw. “On one of them, the beak was completely ripped off and split in half.”
Watts runs the wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center called Cleo’s Critter Care, and this isn’t the first time she’s seen parrots arrive under these conditions.
Earlier in December , injured parrots were found shot in Pasadena and Monrovia – as many as 11 were killed or severely injured.
