Faith in Humanity Restored: Loon Gets Adorable Rescue After Being Stuck in Ice

Some of the most captivating stories involve dramatic rescues where people risk it all to save another person or a beloved pet in peril.

But rescues of the smaller sort are heartwarming in their own way. This story is about the 🚒Rescue of a common loon — to the rescuers, it’s just a single bird, but to the loon, the 🚒Rescue meant everything.

It was on Christmas Day that locals at Star Lake in St. Lawrence, New York, first noticed the common loon out on the lake.

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A loon on a lake is a pretty regular occurrence, but this loon was alone, and it kept diving and swimming in a small area of the lake that was clear of ice.

And the next day it was still there. And the next. And the next.

The problem was that loons need a good amount of open water “runway” — up to 400 meters, according to the Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation’s