{"id":7508,"date":"2020-07-14T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2020-07-10T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:12:22","slug":"turn-better-least-tern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/turn-better-least-tern\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turn For The Better For A Least Tern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7514\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-habitat-tri-state-bird-rescue-1-202007-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"least tern in habitat\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-habitat-tri-state-bird-rescue-1-202007-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-habitat-tri-state-bird-rescue-1-202007-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-habitat-tri-state-bird-rescue-1-202007.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7510\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-tri-state-bird-rescue-2-202007-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"least tern standing on rock\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-tri-state-bird-rescue-2-202007-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-tri-state-bird-rescue-2-202007-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-tri-state-bird-rescue-2-202007.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The following story was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/tristatebird.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tri-State Bird Rescue<\/a> in Delaware.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This diminutive tern, the smallest species of American tern equivalent in size to the Northern cardinal, was found in dire shape by an employee of an environmental agency and transported by a Tri-State volunteer to our clinic for care.<\/p>\n<p>The adult was severely dehydrated and displayed signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/botulism\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">botulism<\/a>. Ingestion of the botulism toxin (which occurs naturally in the environment) can result in paralysis and death. Treatment includes flushing the toxin from the patient&#8217;s system with oral and subcutaneous fluids and providing other supportive care.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7518\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-release-tri-state-bird-rescue-sue-mcvoy-202007-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"least tern on sand\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-release-tri-state-bird-rescue-sue-mcvoy-202007-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-release-tri-state-bird-rescue-sue-mcvoy-202007-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/least-tern-release-tri-state-bird-rescue-sue-mcvoy-202007.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The tern was gavaged with <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-piscivore\/\">EmerAid Intensive Care Piscivore<\/a> frequently for the first few days. The tern improved quickly and soon showed a healthy appetite and began self-feeding. After several days of intensive care, the tern was able to stand, swim, preen, and fly.<\/p>\n<p>Once the tern returned to optimal health and strength and showed strong flight, it was released by a volunteer in an appropriate habitat with others of its species to continue its life in the wild. Release photo courtesy of Sue McVoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A least tern with probable botulism poisoning got help from the Tri-State Bird Rescue that helped it recover and be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Turn For The Better For A Least Tern - EmerAidVet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A least tern with probable botulism poisoning got help from the Tri-State Bird Rescue that helped it recover and be released.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/turn-better-least-tern\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Turn For The Better For A Least Tern - 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