{"id":474614,"date":"2026-02-17T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474614\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:10:08","slug":"an-injured-bird-was-in-trouble-it-knew-exactly-which-door-to-peck-to-get-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474614\/","title":{"rendered":"An injured bird was in trouble. It knew exactly which door to peck to get help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2BT3LUGC2ZEEXBL6K5VFGFTJ2Q\">BERLIN \u2014 An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at a hospital in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Germany<\/a> until medical staff noticed it and called firefighters to help with its rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E5HBKPECTRBPDN2CPO6YTPWRKA\">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><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two firefighters with the cormorant, one holding it\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CLIKZ3YEMVHLTKZLKQHCOT5AWE.jpg\"  \/>A firefighter from the Bremen Fire Department holds an injured cormorant that had pecking at the door of an emergency room at a hospital in Bremen, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026.Feuerwehr Bremen\/ DPA via AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WSRAS2E3BRCPTO735SQFP2CWNE\">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 class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CRAISBQPGVAEHAFKL6RRN7UVEY\">\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 class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WE6NIP4LZVCNTBZXI7YBO2IAK4\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bird-rescue-eucalyptus-tree-california-wind-d64050bc6113e84805e6fb7390cb0455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4QBA4CKVKNBUTGGWREVHH4JXL4\">&#8211;The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-474614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474614","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=474614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}