An injured sooty tern is rescued by kids on a Cape York cattle station after Tropical Cyclone Trevor blew the little seabird hundreds of kilometres off course.
A little seabird has survived being blown hundreds of kilometres into the middle of Cape York in Far North Queensland after Tropical Cyclone Trevor carried the bird from its natural coastal habitat.The family found the injured sooty tern and knew"it was not from around here"The Jackson family from Wolverton Station, west of Lockhart River, discovered the injured sooty tern on the cattle station's airstrip.
"It's definitely from the coast and the only thing we can think of is it has been blown in during the cyclone.""He has a sore wing so my children are looking after the little thing, they're giving him some counselling," she said.Lynette Ensor from BirdLife Australia said it was"extremely unusual" for a sooty tern to be found inland.
"It is very surprising because they spend their entire life at sea, except for when they breed,'' Ms Ensor said.Ms Jackson said the cyclone had also caused some damage to their property."Around 1:00am, he came in pretty wild — we got the tail of Trevor and it was ferocious. "We've got trees down, we've had 175 millimetres of rain and the creek at the back is on the rise and fence lines will be damaged."
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