Roosevelt Island East River Water Rescue - Duck Tangled Up in Fishing Wire Released By Passerby After Calls to Animal Rescue Go Unanswered
Image from You Tube of Roosevelt Island Duck Rescue
An East River Duck got stuck in fishing wire near the rocks just below the Roosevelt Island seawall last Friday evening. Luckily, some kind people passing by stopped and rescued the duck. According to our Duck Heroes, they first called animal rescue centers but nobody came to help the duck so a few hours later our Duck Heroes returned and decided to do the job themselves. Fortunately, for the Roosevelt Island Duck, they were able to release it from the fishing wire.
Here's the rescue footage.
You Tube Video of Roosevelt Island Duck Rescue
Good job by the Roosevelt Island Duck Heroes!
UPDATE 11 PM - Queens Crap blogger adds:
That's actually a Brant Goose, not a duck.
5 comments :
Kudos to the good citizen - what a break for the lucky duck!
That man gets our AFLAC Award
Being as we are an " island " why is there not Wild Life Department here? There should be someone here on the island to call when animals here on Roosevelt Island are in distress or are injured. RIOC should add that dept to it's organization. At least have a consultant here, someone to call when needed. I know for a fact there are animal rehabilitators living here on the island, why not put em to work for RIOC?
They seem to forget that not only humans live on this island need a helping hand as well.
I challenge RIOC to start a wildlife dept and show NYC we care about our island, and we really are " Green " as Ms. Torres puts it.
Signed,
A concerned resident
We need to give this guy a big Thank you! who is he anyways? If not for him the animals suffering would have been worse.
Bravo!!!!
Why is there no Wild Life Dept on this island anyways? There is going to be a " wild gardens " section at the new park, maybe the State will come in and do something to help animals on RI.
Thank you, Duck Heroes! Has anyone heard anything about the other duck? There's always two and supposedly only one has been seen around the island so far this week.
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