Baby Turkeys Carefully Scooped Up From Storm Drain, Returned To Mother Hen, By Officers On Long Island

CORAM, NY — A mother hen was reunited with her poults after they fell through a storm drain on a Coram Street recently with the help of a pair of environmental conservation officers, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said Thursday.

ECOs Della Rocco and Layton, who were on patrol nearby, responded to a radio call requesting help with turkey poults stuck in a storm drain, and upon arrival, saw the baby birds trapped and crying out.

The mother hen was roaming close by with the rest of her clutch.

The ECOs lifted the storm drain cover, and ECO Layton climbed inside, and carefully scooped up the tiny birds.

"Here, mama," he can be heard saying as he carried them their clucking mom, clearly in distress from the ordeal of losing her babies.

In the end, the pair were placed on the grass, and reunited with their mama.