The swan at Upper Red Lake was captured thanks to a collaboration between the Wisconsin D.N.R.
It’s not just a ‘I mistook that for a snow goose’ or ‘I mistook that for a Canada goose’ because they are three or four times the size.” That you would be hunting that it tends to be poachers or vandals. They’re so much bigger than anything else. “It’s usually people doing something bad. “It’s not a mistake,” migratory game bird ecologist with the Wisconsin D.N.R., Taylor Finger, shared. Especially, if they’ve been illegally shot. Linda and Kevin Grenzer spend their retirement fund traveling across the state saving these hurt birds with their own hovercraft, help from the Wisconsin D.N.R., and the Raptor Education Group which takes care of the animals after they’ve been removed from the wild. It didn’t fly off the lake but it flew on the other side.” But then as we both approached, it got spooked. “The mate, actually almost looked like it was going to go swim to protect the one that was injured. “Once we actually started approaching, this swan was alert,” Linda Grenzer, a volunteer bird rescuer and wife to Kevin, recalled about Thursday’s swan. Including the cygnet swan in Wausau and the trumpeter swan in Gresham found on Upper Red Lake. One retired volunteer couple takes injured birds, shot illegally, under their wing. One was captured in a parking lot in Wausau and another was rescued yesterday in Gresham. (WBAY) - Two swans were shot and rescued in and around Northeast Wisconsin in the past two weeks.
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