Heartwarming! Grey-Headed Goose Returns to the Sky and Water After Rescue
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A gray-headed goose fell to a community in Zhengzhou due to intestinal inflammation and wing injury. A kind-hearted person called the police for help, and wildlife rescue personnel carefully treated it, and this national level two protected animal was released into Bailong Lake yesterday, returning to the green water and blue sky,
At 2:30 PM on February 25th, Ms. Fu from Hanfei Jinsha International Community saw a cleaner carrying a 'white goose' in the community. After asking, she learned that it had fallen from the sky and had been caring for wild animals. She suspected it was a gray-headed goose and immediately called the police,
After receiving the call, the first police station of Zhengzhou Forest Public Security identified the 'white goose' as a national level two protected wild animal – gray-headed goose. At that time, the goose was slow in action and lethargic, and the police immediately contacted Zhengzhou Forest Industry Wild Animal Rescue Station,
Station Director Dong Chaowei and others arrived at the scene and conducted a preliminary examination on the goose, discovering that it had injuries to its legs and wings, and suffered from intestinal inflammation. It is likely that it had not eaten for a long time and fell from the sky due to physical exhaustion during flight. Subsequently, Dong Chaowei and the police together took the goose to Zhengzhou Wild Animal Rescue Station for treatment,
Dong Chaowei told reporters that gray-headed geese belong to migratory birds, and their populations are mostly in Southern Europe and Western Europe, with Italy and the Netherlands being the most. The body length is generally between 1.2 meters and 1.5 meters, the neck is slender, and it is called gray-headed goose because of the protruding wart-like bump on the forehead,
After a month of treatment by the rescue station staff, the goose has recovered well and meets the standards for release. At 3 PM on March 26th, Zhengzhou Wild Animal Rescue Station staff and Zhengzhou Forest Public Security Police together took it to Bailong Lake for release,
Forest Public Security Police remind citizens –
If you see gray-headed geese at Bailong Lake, please do not feed them closely, do not scare them, and especially for kite flyers, you need to be a little further away. Because kite lines are too thin and the gray-headed geese are flying high, they cannot see them, and there have been cases of gray-headed geese being cut by kite lines every year!
