The Royal Society for the Protection of Curlews (RSPC) is furious about the way one of these noble birds is being displayed in the Townsville CBD . The battered Curlew painting ,seen below , it says , looks as if it his been hit in the beak with a shot from an elephant gun fired by the notorious white hunter , Jungle Jim .
Furthermore, the Curlew is situated outside a McDonald's , giving the terrible impression that they are plucked and sold inside , parts dipped in batter , like KFC, a most undesirable image for North Queensland , causing the tourist industry to dive .
The Curlew organisation's chief spokesman , Tom Tit , said Townsville's city council should be taken out and used as clay pigeon target shooting practice at the rifle range , with its imported new Israeli pop ups , pelted with Magpie pecked over-ripe Bowen mangoes , for allowing the Curlew to be portrayed in such a rundown fashion, in an inappropriate position near a junk food outlet .
It offended all bird lovers to see a wonderful , threatened Australian bird in such a mutilated state."What is up with Townsville ?" Tit asked , in an exclusive interview ." It not only neglects war memorials , can't get its public clocks to work properly , allows Billy Bombax to be completely defaced , and nobody gives a stuff ?"
Tit shocked this blogger by saying he suspected that many of the vessels in the large Ghost Fleet which passes in and out of Townsville without the media noticing were actually operated by ruthless gangs of Aussie bird smugglers supplying Asian markets .
The failure of the local media to pick up the Curlew disgrace , along with all the other issues seemed to indicate it had joined the cute Little Whimbrels migrating to Siberia and got lost along the way.
Tit said he had advised the Queen that she should withdraw the royal assent for Townsville to be called the Queen City of the North because of the way the Curlew has been treated , situated as it is on the new birdbrained bus hub route .
