A pest controller checked into a Nottingham hotel and found 10 dead pigeons rotting in bird netting outside his window. He could smell them before he saw them.
The hotel knew. A TripAdvisor review from August 2025 warned about trapped birds. Staff said they were "trying to find a solution." Months later, pigeons were still dying slow deaths in the same netting.
Kevin Newell has collated 314 cases like this. 924 birds dead in netting across the UK. Robins, barn owls, blackbirds. Protected species caught in legal traps.
The RSPCA gets 1,000+ calls a year about birds trapped in netting. Zero prosecutions have ever happened.
Netting is legal. Letting birds suffer in it shouldn't be.
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