Female stork shot mistakenly by hunter in western Japan

A female stork, a species designated as a special national treasure, was killed Friday as a hunter shot it by accident in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, police and a local education board said Friday.(Unnan City Board of Education)According to the education board, one member of a local hunting group shot the stork, believing it was a heron.The Unnan city education board confirmed the 5-year-old stork laid eggs in March and at least one chick hatched the following month, only the second such hatching in the wild except for an area around Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, where a breeding projec…READ FULL ARTICLE