Fisherman Deported Back to Guatemala After Damaging Protected Bird

A fisherman in Florida has been deported to Guatemala after he damaged a large white heron, a protected bird.

Edgard Valenzuela, a citizen of Guatemala, had been fishing in Baggs Cape Florida State Park when he reported a large rock in the bird, causing him to suffer a broken wing. By Local10:

After months of recovery of surgery, a Great White Heron That the informed witnesses suffered a broken wing, a dispute with a fisherman was free on Thursday in Key Biscayne.

The witnesses reported that Edgard Valenzuela was fishing when he threw a large rock into the Vadeo bird on January 20, in the State Park Bill Baggs Cape Florida, Chordination to the Florida Fishing and Wild Fishing Conservation Commission.

Amanda Burkeor the Marino Marco de Port de Pelícan station, near North Bay Village, responded to the State Park and found the Protected by the Federal Government The bird bent down in the grass and bleeding from the right wing.

Burke reported that an radiography later showed that the bird’s wing had fractured in two places and there was an emergency surgery on January 21.

The bird was rehabilitated at the Pelican Harbor Marco station.

Florida, Lakeland Saddle Creek Park: a large white heron stretches her wings and flies free. (Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group through Getty)

The FWC officers then arrested Valenzuela in February and prosecutors accused him of trying or hurting a species designated in danger, threatened or protected.

He thought that his trial was scheduled for May 27, the federal authorities deported Valenzuela to Guatemala for being illegally in the United States.