A Feral Chick Fell into a Tampa Storm Drain. Its Rescue Was Ingenious.

When Dylan Breese arrived at the scene of the accident, he wasn’t met with shouting, crying, or police sirens-just a tiny chirp coming from underground. It’s not an unfamiliar sound to Breese, who started rescuing wayward street chickens in Tampa’s Ybor City eight years ago and launched his nonprofit, the Ybor Misfits Microsanctuary, in 2020. This wasn’t even the first time he’d rescued a bird who’d fallen into the subterranean world of storm drains and tunnels. “Usually, we can play a YouTube video of a family of chicks chirping and the mom making noises, and a lot of times, that will draw them out of the tunnel,” he says. “But this one was stubborn.”

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