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I found this poor goose laying in a park today and acting odd. When I got closer I saw that its left leg was coiled up and the area around it was covered in blood. As far as I can tell, the goose got trapped in some fishing line or something and nearly amputated its leg. None of the wildlife rescue groups could get it so a coworker and I done wrassled it into a critter gitter and brought it to a rescue. With any luck it will make some kind of recovery even if it can't be released.
Assuming the leg recovers mostly okay in a few weeks, it should be able to be reintroduced to a herd of geese before they migrate. Looks kinda young but deffinitly not a baby.
I always crouch my expectations with wildlife rescue. In this case I didn't get close enough to really discern the full nature of the injury until I was bearhugging it, and at that point the mission was just to get it into that container and speed away. From 1.5m~ away the leg was really abnormal and seemed almost necrotic with no movement or weight-bearing whatsoever. The goose was exhausted and still actively bleeding pretty heavily. That kind of damage and function loss is probably survivable but I'd say it's 50/50 whether it's reintroduced or kept semi-wild in a sanctuary.
I've seen a semi wild duck with a chunk of its beak missing that seemed to be doing fine.
For at least five years there was a local buzzard that had lost a leg somehow and was still getting around.
So, reasons to stay positive.
Get well soon goose
Daily reminder birds are free you can just take them.
You can take them or you can leave them with a car battery. Both are fully legal.
You're a real one, happybadger
Thank you for your service o7
You saved that silly goose's life.
It was very much a lesser of two weevils situation. We knew there was a significant risk of re-injuring it trying to capture it, but it was resting next to a big public event that would start in an hour. The risk of random schmucks doing that when my coworker studies wildlife biology and my background is in wildlife rehab was big enough to outweigh that. I ended up in the mud, covered in blood and shit, smiling while it bit me.
Thank you for saving this cutie's life <3
