Wayward albatross released to the wild

By Colin Nickerson
Globe Staff

FALMOUTH __ A rare wayfaring bird from far southern seas was released into New England waters and northern skies today after weeks of treatment at the Wildlife Clinic of the Tufts Veterinary School.

The yellow-nosed albatross was found dazed and emaciated in York, Maine on April 28.

Wildlife biologists and other bird specialists have no idea how the bird came to be thousands of miles from its native range in sub-Antarctic waters between southernmost South America and Africa.

The bird survived thanks to a combination of good luck and the kindness of strangers.

Biologists and other wildlife experts speculate that the albatross may have been swept north by some freakish storm. But they also have suggested the possibility that its sense of direction became scrambled and it crossed the equator under its own power.

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