{"id":472413,"date":"2026-02-16T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472413\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:39:07","slug":"firefighters-rescue-injured-seabird-desperately-pecking-at-hospital-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472413\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue injured seabird desperately pecking at hospital door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at a hospital in <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/germany\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> until medical staff noticed it and called firefighters to help with its rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The cormorant, a shiny black waterbird, had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak when it made its presence known at the glass door of the Klinikum Links der Weser hospital in the northern city of Bremen on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>In a joint effort, medical staff and firefighters removed the fishhook and treated the wound, the Bremen firefighter department said in a statement. The bird was later released back into nature on the grounds of the hospital park. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an injured cormorant does approach humans, it is usually an animal in extreme distress that has lost its natural shyness,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bird-rescue-eucalyptus-tree-california-wind-d64050bc6113e84805e6fb7390cb0455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cormorant<\/a> is a large bird with a long neck, wedge-shaped head and a distinctive sharp beak with a hooked tip. A fishhook in the bird\u2019s beak would be extremely dangerous for the animal. Infections, pain and even starvation are possible, the firefighter department said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,219152,1687,1685,793,97,2031,1104,79,200479,201,965],"class_list":{"0":"post-472413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-bremen","10":"tag-climate","11":"tag-climate-and-environment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-oddities","15":"tag-pain-management","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-send-to-apple-news","18":"tag-wildlife","19":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}