Bird Faced Near Death After Swallowing Angler's Fish With Hook Inside At Tydings Park

HARFORD COUNTY, MD — Animal Control Officer Marika Krejci faced a daunting task Thursday. A fisherman contacted Harford County Animal Control around 8:15 a.m. needing help.

The angler was fishing in Tydings Park and when he caught a fish, a Double-Crested Cormorantswooped down and grabbed the fish, but swallowed the hook that was inside the fish.

Krejci transported the "spicy waterfowl" with its razor-sharp beak to Chadwell Vet. X-rays showed how the bird narrowly escaped a traumatizing death, the animal control department posted on Facebook.

Instead, the veterinarian sedated the bird, removed the hook and left the fish in its belly. Krejci then released the bird back to its natural habitat at Tydings Park.