BARNSTABLE – Staff at the New England Wildlife Center are hard at work cleaning dozens of birds after 100 gallons of oil spilled into Boston’s Muddy River earlier this week.
43 birds being cleaned
At the center in Barnstable, staff are working around the clock to clean the 43 ducks and geese.
“Shifting our resources a little bit to back up the hospital. Forty-three is a lot of birds but we’re very lucky we have trained teams here washing, two teams today. It’s a hard process but we are dedicated to it,” said New England Wildlife Center CEO Zak Merz. “Our staff has been here morning, noon and night.”
Merz said the recent oil spill is part of a much larger problem, one that the wildlife center has taken seriously, putting together a plan and being ready to jump into action…