SALISBURY/LEICESTER — One of the two 5-week-old loon chicks being raised on Lake Dunmore was found with a badly broken leg on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 1.
The Cruz family on the east shore called local loon monitor, Mike Korkuc and his wife, Rosie, who rescued the chick and transported it to the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) rehabilitation center in Woodstock, where it was evaluated and euthanized. The VINS staff stated the injury was from a boat propeller.
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