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They arrived to find the bird was actually a great blue heron and was entangled in fishing line. "There is no way the bird was going to get out of there," Lt. Brian Burwell said in a news release.

“Animal Control Officers Ashley Tester and Aubrie Mausolf waded into thigh-deep water and placed a towel over the heron’s head to reduce its stress. They picked it up and spent the next several ...

Squawks from a distressed great blue heron had neighbors calling authorities. Equipped with boats, rescuers retrieved the bird caught in the fishing line.

Once untangled, the blue heron was examined for injuries and then released on the shore, and it swam away, deputies said. Brandon Township is about a 50-mile drive northwest from Detroit.

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Squawks from a distressed great blue heron had neighbors calling authorities. Equipped with boats, rescuers retrieved the bird caught in the fishing line.

Squawks from a distressed great blue heron had neighbors calling authorities. Equipped with boats, rescuers retrieved the bird caught in the fishing line.

Once untangled, the blue heron was examined for injuries and then released on the shore, and it swam away, deputies said. Brandon Township is about a 50-mile drive northwest from Detroit.

You might be able to hear a strange sound like quacking, barking, chirping and screeching all at once. That’s the sound of the great blue heron, a wetland bird native to the Pacific Northwest.