A family in Acton, Massachusetts, spotted a bird later identified as a thick-billed murre in the snow outside their home after a nor'easter.
"It's an Arctic nesting bird," explained Wayne Petersen of the Massachusetts Audubon Society."Most people don't see them unless they spend a lot of time in the Arctic in the summertime, or at sea in places you don't really want to be in the wintertime."
"The thing about murres is they are water birds, so to see them on land, in the non-breeding season, even just up on the beach, is very rare," she said."To see them in an urban environment, in somebody's backyard, that is exceedingly rare." "It was severely emaciated, but did not have any injuries," Dr. Maureen Murray, director of Tufts Wildlife Clinic, said in a statement."Veterinarians provided fluids and hand fed the murre until it became strong enough to start eating on its own."
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