NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — Wildlife rescuers and community members are searching for answers after a group of children was reportedly seen dropping bricks on a mother goose and her eggs on Saturday at Armstrong Park.
The mother goose was seen limping shortly after the attack. Four of her eggs were smashed and killed just two weeks before they were set to hatch while the remaining one was abandoned by the mother. Local bird rescuer Kasia Perkowska says it was most likely because she was too scared to return to the nest and likely knew the egg had been injured in some way and wouldn’t survive.
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“I watched her,” Perkowska said. “I came out yesterday and kept an eye on them, hoping they would go back to that egg. But, when I got here yesterday morning, the egg was cold to the touch, so it wasn’t viable anymore.”
Perkowska says license restrictions kept her from incubating the egg herself…