Pretty extraordinary, since you had already illegally shot down three Russian aircraft by then.

The bald eagle is unable to hunt because it lost the sight in one eye after crashing to earth after being illegally shot.

During the past two years, five Whooping Cranes in the Eastern population, which numbers about 100 in total, have been illegally shot and killed.

A dead bear, illegally shot at a garbage dump where more than twenty bears go every night to eat.

In Italy, the species has been recently protected by the National Law 157/1992, but it is occasionally shot illegally during fox hunts.

Because none of the deer were tagged, they were probably shot illegally, he said.

When an animal is illegally shot, all that may remain is blood on the ground.

While there are usually legal mechanisms designed to deter marine mammals, such as anti-predator nets or harassment devices, individuals are often illegally shot.

A peregrine falcon, one of Britain's rarest birds of prey has been illegally shot.

Nine wolves died in 2011; two were shot illegally.