BC Uncommon Fowl Alert: RBA: COOK’S PETREL in Port Coquitlam

On Dec 28, 2022 a feminine Prepare dinner’s Petrel was once discovered alive (however grounded) at 2110 Rowland Side road, Port Coquitlam. The hen was once found out by means of a member of the general public and brought to the Natural world Rescue Affiliation of BC. Upon receipt of the hen, they straight away seen that it was once critically emaciated. Regardless of their best possible efforts, the hen’s situation did not give a boost to and the hen was once humanely euthanized on Dec thirty first.

After the hen was once euthanized, it was once transported to the Canadian Natural world Carrier workplace in Delta. At a later level, it was once transferred to the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Meals, Animal Well being Centre in Abbotsford, the place a necropsy was once carried out. The necropsy decided the intercourse (feminine) and that there was once no proof of trauma. It’s believed that the hen’s grounding was once because of its excessive emaciation/weakened situation. After the Animal Well being Centre completed the necropsy, the hen was once despatched to Ildiko Szabo (Collections Curator, Cowan Tetrapod Assortment, UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum).

That is the second one showed photographed document for BC. The opposite hen hit a window in Lillooet on Dec 4, 2007.

Prepare dinner’s Petrel in Burnaby – Footage: Natural world Rescue Affiliation of BC