The Royal Society for the Protection of Curlews (RSPC), has called on Elton John to raise the disappearance of a mutilated Curlew from the Townsville CBD . Badly scratched , with a large hole in its beak , this was the sad looking bird before it recently vanished, without any official announcement , not noticed by the goosed, plucked , battered and deep fried local media .
Angry RSPC spokesman Buck Mulligan said he wants the great entertainer , suffering from walking pneumonia , to ask the audience for help to locate the Curlew when he first walks on stage in the city's new stadium on his last tour down under along the Yellow Brick Bruce Highway . He would also like the Rocket Man to deliver a verbal rocket at all those responsible for the long neglect of the Curlew and its final cruel removal.
There is a sneaking suspicion that in the frenzied activity to tart up the CBD for the stadium opening , the metal signal box on which the Curlew nested was removed and is now on its way to a Japanese scrapmetal yard, ending up as complimentary razor blades on cruise ships .
