As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Friday, 28 December 2012

Bird Survives Double Fish Hooking Thanks to Roadside Hero


By Donna Marie Parker of Florida
I volunteer for wildlife rescue in Tampa, Florida. At about 11 o’clock at night, I got a call about a cormorant on the Howard Frankland Bridge. A bird was tangled in fishing wire and the poor fella had been there since 5:30. So I took my net and headed out.

It was dark and when I got on the bridge I was thinking, “Oh God, please let someone have beat me to it this time and have already gotten him.”  But no such luck for him nor I. There he was, as traffic barrelled by him, scared half to death.

I pulled over the 4runner and got my net out, but he saw me and headed towards traffic away from the bridge wall.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/bird-survives-double-fish-hooking-thanks-to-roadside-hero.html#ixzz2GA8yL0me

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