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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

AS THE NMB STP ARE OUT VERY EARLY AT SUNRISE EVERY DAY, THERE ARE OFTEN ENCOUNTERS WITH WILDLIFE IN NEED OF HELP

 HERE ARE FEW ENCOUNTERS FROM THE NMB STP VOLUNTEERS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS


While NMB STP volunteer Tammy is out walking her segment looking for potential Sea Turtle crawls

 she comes upon this Black Scoter in need of help. Calls are made and a rehabber is contacted, she

 immediately knows the bird is not supposed to be on the beach and needs help,  




Tammy waits in the hot sun while protecting and ensuring people are not to close as not to add to the 

stress of this Black Scoter in need of help, Many thanks to Tammy. 

(Tammy has ironically named him Scooter)

 




Linda and Tammy carefully bringing Scooter to transport to the Carolina Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

 who will be able to give Scooter the help it needs.  






ANOTHER SEA BIRD IN NEED OF HELP

NMB STP volunteers Robert and Bonnie are out on their early morning walks looking for potential Sea

 Turtle Crawls. They look and see something struggling in the surf, they go to investigate and find this

 Sea bird being thrashed around in the surf in desperate need of help. They pull it out of the surf. Calls

 are made to Linda also asking what can be done?  



This Sooty Shearwater bird is also a bird that lives out to Sea and is in desperate need of help.

Soon he is on his way to Kim, who runs the Carolina Rehabilitation Wildlife Center 





So Many thanks to Kim for all you do!





 Tuesday Segment A NMB STP walkers are out on their early morning walks looking for any potential

 crawls. The volunteers come upon this dead shark stranding.  Calls are made to the NMB Beach Patrol

 and are told that animal control will come to investigate, as a marker on top of his fin could mean this

 shark has been previously Tagged.  



When sharks are tagged this information can be used to monitor, track and locate that particular shark.

As there are still many unanswered questions, this information can be very useful in shark

 conservation. 

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