"Kill your speed, not our wildlife", urge bird charity

"Kill your speed, not our wildlife."

That's the message from The Manx Wild Bird Aid - who say they've been receiving "call after call" about birds hit by cars.

The charity is urging motorists to slow down - particularly with the presence of mother birds and their babies at this time of the year.

It says other birds such as corvids and songbirds are frantically foraging for food for babies in nests, and being less cautious around roads as a result.

Organisers add if a parent bird is injured or killed on the road, their babies may slowly starve to death waiting for them to come home.

Lastly, the charity says if  you do hit a bird, or see one that been hit, to not drive by - instead it asks people to keep a cardboard box in your car to help carry or store a bird in need.

The public is asked to pick injured birds up and bring them to the charity or a vet directly or to give them a call and they will try to find a volunteer to collect them.

If a female duck or pheasant has been hit, you're urged to look and listen for orphaned babies - they have zero chance of surviving without their mother, and you may be able to hear them peeping in the hedgerow nearby.