PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 3, 2024
After being sent to a rehabilitator by volunteer rangers, a loon chick from Little Sebago Lake was translocated out of state. Sharon Young, who has overseen the Little Sebago Loon Monitoring and Conservation Program since 2018, said, “That chick would have been dead in a very short period” had the volunteers not stepped in. Young was shocked when the rehabilitator told her last week that the loon would not be returning to Little Sebago and would instead be relocated to a lake in Massachusetts as part of an effort by the Biodiversity Research Institute to restore that state’s once-thriving loon population. “We’re trying very hard to take care of our population,” Young said. “So, to lose one like this, it’s infuriating, and it isn’t something that we can get over.”