Heartwarming! The Trumpeter Swan, After Treatment, Returns to the Blue Skies and Waters
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A gray-necked crane fell into Zhengzhou's residential area due to intestinal inflammation and wing injury, a kind-hearted person called the police for help, wildlife rescue personnel carefully treated it, this national secondary protected animal was released into Beilong 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 cleaning lady holding a 'white crane', and after asking, she found out that it had fallen from the sky and was constantly caring for wild animals, so she immediately called the police
Upon receiving the report, the Zhengzhou Forest Police First Brigade officers identified the 'white crane' as a national secondary protected wild animal – gray-necked crane. At that time, the crane was slow in action and lethargic, and the officers immediately contacted the Zhengzhou Forestry Bureau Wildlife Rescue Station
Station director Dong Chaowei and others arrived on the scene and conducted a preliminary examination of the crane, discovering that it had injuries to its legs, its wings were injured, and it had intestinal inflammation, presumably due to prolonged lack of food, it fell from the sky due to physical exhaustion during flight. Subsequently, Dong Chaowei and the officers together brought the crane to the Zhengzhou Wildlife Rescue Station for treatment
Dong Chaowei told reporters that gray-necked cranes are migratory birds, with populations mostly in Southern Europe and Western Europe, with Italy and the Netherlands having the most. The body length is generally between 1.2 meters and 1.5 meters, the neck is long and slender, and because of the wart-like protrusion on the forehead, it is called gray-necked crane
After a month of care by the rescue station staff, the crane has recovered well and meets the criteria for release. At 3:00 PM on March 26th, Zhengzhou Wildlife Rescue Station staff and Zhengzhou Forest Police First Brigade officers together took it to Beilong Lake for release
Forest Police officers reminded citizens——
If you see a crane at Beilong Lake, please do not feed it closely, do not frighten it, especially kite flyers, kite flyers need to be a little further away. Because kite lines are too thin, the high-flying cranes cannot see them, and there have been cases of cranes being cut by kite lines every year!
