Jorge rescues a Booby!

Booby recovers from lead poisoning at the Blue Ocean Reef rescue facility

On November 1st 2007 Captain Jorge found a sick Red-Footed Booby squatting on the beach during one of his beach patrols. He brought it to the office, and presented it to James who then tried to arrange transport for the poorly bird to Dr. Baird Fleming, a vet working for Blue Ocean Reef in French Harbour. After realising that neither he nor Dr. Fleming had a car available to them, James took the bird on the bus to the vetinary surgery. After a bumpy trip through the rough back streets of the poorest areas of western Roatan, the bedraggled avian made it to the vet, and was diagnosed with possible lead poisoning. He is now recovering at the Blue Ocean Reef rescue facility (in picture), with the hope that he will be released promptly. If he fails to fly again, he will live out the rest of his days peacefully there. Birds are often the first indicators of contamination in water courses.

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