Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementKaren Gosse is a volunteer with Rock Wildlife Rescue, one of the groups — alongside individual volunteers — committed to the cause. The birds are then transported to other volunteers who bring them back to a beach in Witless Bay each night. They said they usually try to make the journey to release the stranded birds on the same night they're found. Volunteers collect stranded Leach's storm petrels and release them. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAnd though the numbers may still sound high in the millions, it doesn’t mean the birds aren’t at risk.

Source: CBC News December 28, 2025 14:03 UTC