Wildlife Aid - Great Crested Grebe - 10th March 2010

This beautiful bird was brought into the Wildlife Aid hospital when members of the public had found it after it had been clipped by a car late at night. They had looked after it overnight and brought it into the hospital as soon as they could the very next day.
The story behind this bird seems to be very strange; it was clipped by a car at about 11pm nowhere near a body of water - what it was doing flying around at that time of night and so far away from water will remain a mystery. Great Crested Grebe's live solely on water and are not evolved or adapted to be on land with their legs positioned right at the rear of their bodies. The position of the legs means they are extremely accomplished water birds and can be seen diving and swimming under water to catch fish, for short periods of time, all over the UK. Their mating dance has been the subject of many a documentary on TV.
Following this birds treatment and subsequent swimming test, he/she was immediately taken back to the wild to make a full recovery without the stress of being in captivity for a lengthy period of time.
A good result and once again amazing work from our Vet Nurse and Hospital Manager, Sara Cowen, to make this happen.

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Pets & Animals

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• Great Crested Grebe
• Sara Cowen
• wildlife aid
• wildlife sos
• animal planet
• Simon Cowell
• Surrey
• Leatherhead
• wildlife
• British wildlife
• wildlife rescue
• animal rescue

[jennybosher]

I can't believe that Wildlife SOS won't be shown on Animal Planet after this series. It's a wonderful series and has us either crying or laughing every time we watch.