Once on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, swept the hurricane Irma, local residents – sherry Goff and Joe Murray wandered along the beach when he noticed in the sand a peculiar bird.
They called it Jerry.
The bird’s wings were spread out. They are stuck in the sand from the surf, so she couldn’t move. Sherry and Joe released the bird and moved it on the grass located near a Golf course.
At first they thought it was a osprey. But when contacted by the officer to protect wildlife, he is using the species of birds identified on the beach in South Carolina has been the Atlantic mottled Petrel.
It was confirmed in the birds of prey Center in Charleston, where he had been Jerry.
«This species is not found in this part of the world», — told the Miami-Herald employee of the center, Emily Davis. «Mottled petrels usually nest on remote Islands of the Eastern Atlantic that is thousands of miles away».
According to experts, such a powerful storm, like Irma, when it was formed and grew in the ocean, could have picked up a Thunderbird and move it halfway around the world in fact.
The bird was very exhausted and dehydrated. «But as long as she fights, we fight it together,» said Emily Davis. «This bird is a fighter.»
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