[div id="headline"] [h2]A big stink at Vancouver tennis tourney[/h2] [/div] [div id="author"] [p class="source"]The Canadian Press[/p] [p class="article-date"]July 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM EDT[/p] [/div] [!-- dateline --]Vancouver[!-- /dateline --] — A bird carcass causing a stink at a Vancouver tennis tournament isn't going anywhere amid concerns that removing it could endanger the entire colony.[/p] The dead heron is hanging from a tree near the Rogers Open event at Stanley Park.[/p] The city's parks board says the fledgling likely fell out of the tree and died — not uncommon for the colony — and has been hanging from the tree for some time, much to the chagrin of those attending the tennis tourney below.[/p] But parks board chairwoman Korina Houghton says the bird won't be removed because doing so could disturb the large colony of endangered heron.[/p] Ms. Houghton says because herons are a protected species, parks officials don't want to disrupt or scare off any of the birds and put the surviving heron fledglings at risk.
[/p] She says the board's wildlife specialists have determined the dead bird doesn't pose a significant risk to people below, and it if it's still there it will be removed when the colony leaves — probably next month.
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