Murre, rarely seen in state, crash-lands in Stamford
(Weston-AP, Dec. 13, 2005 11:42 AM) _ It looks a little bit like a little penguin. And it looked a little out of place on a busy street in downtown Stamford.
It's a thick-billed murre, an arctic bird with striking black and white plumage, short legs and webbed feet, and it crash-landed on a rain-slicked street last week.
Wildlife in Crisis took in the bird, and wildlife rehabilitator Meredith Sampson reports its doing just fine in the 1,700 acre Devil's Den Preserve in Weston.
Sampson says hurricanes and tropical storms moving north sometimes intercept arctic birds migrating south at this time of year and blows them off course. A barnacle goose, for instance, was recently seen in Newtown.
The theory is that the murre mistook a rain-slicked street for a body of water and was injured in the subsequent collision.
2 comments:
Awww....
I emailed you from my aol email address!
Poor little buggers. Me too, i wanna see one too!
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