SEQUIM, Wash. (AP) — A wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula reports that a duckling is recovering after surgery to remove a 5-inch metal blow dart from its torso. Matthew Randazzo of the Northwest Raptor and Wildlife Center says the bird appears to be in good physical shape, although “very traumatized and irritated.”
Randazzo says the duckling was shot in late May in Port Angeles’ Lincoln Park.
The wildlife center hopes to release him soon.
