(9 Dec 2024)
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Brookline, Massachusetts – 9 December 2024
1. New England Wildlife Center veterinary technicians struggle and fail to capture an oil-covered bird
2. New England Wildlife Center veterinary technicians recover a captured goose from a net and transfer the oil-covered bird into a plastic container for transportation to hospital
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zak Mertz, New England Wildlife Center:
“Our process has been to get the most critically impacted ones help first. So, today I think we caught about eight to 10. We had another truckload yesterday. From what we’re seeing as we work downstream first, we’re coming across more and more birds that do need help. So, we’ll be shuttling them back, you know, five or 10 at a time, back to our hospital.”
4. A New England Wildlife Center veterinary technician carries an oil-covered bird in a plastic container and hands it over to a Boston Park Ranger
5. Wide of New England Wildlife Center veterinary technicians and Boston Park Rangers during the operation to capture oil-covered birds
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zak Mertz, New England Wildlife Center:
“And so we’re trying to balance rescuing them and getting them care with stressing them out too much. We don’t want to cause them to do any extra activity, especially if they have oil in their mouth and nose. We could do more damage. And the last thing we want is to scare them away to a place where we can’t get them anymore.”
7. New England Wildlife Center veterinary technicians in a boat searching for oil-covered birds in the water
STORYLINE:
Wildlife rescuers were rushing to capture and tend to dozens of birds that were soaked in oil after an apparent spill in a Boston river.
Police and fire departments were dispatched to the Muddy River on the border of Boston and the town of Brookline a little after noon on Sunday following reports of a possible oil leak.
Police say responders found that there was some kind of leak into the waterway that impacted wildlife including numerous ducks and geese.
Rescuers say it will take up to a month for the birds to be released into the wild.
The source of the leak was still under investigation.
AP Video shot by Charles Krupa
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