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First Loon Returns To Massachusetts Pond In Conservation Project
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:03:44
Publish Date: 2018-06-05 16:49:10
Description: The Portland-based Biodiversity Research Institute is calling the return of an adult, male loon to a chain of ponds in southeastern Massachusetts “a major milestone in loon conservation.” The loon was born in another state, captured by biologists as a chick and taken to Massacushetts in an effort to imprint it in a place where loons disappeared more than a century ago. Biologists are hoping to see other loons return over the next few weeks. The male loon is known as Chick No. 4-2015. He’s one of 16 loons born in New York and Maine over the past three years, separated from its parents as a chick and raised in a partially submerged holding pen on a pond in Lakeville, Massachusetts. There, he learned to feed on his own and grew bigger. He was released from the pen, got acquainted with the other transplanted loons in the area and, by the time the skies darkened and the first snow flew, so had Chick No. 4, along with his comrades. They typically spend three years at sea. “The next question
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