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Rare Seal Sighting: Young Calf Spotted On Long Island Sound Beach Rare Seal Sighting: Young Calf Spotted On Long Island Sound Beach
Rare Seal Sighting: Young Calf Spotted On Long Island Sound Beach There was a real "wildlife" treat when a harp seal decided to sun itself for several hours on the Long Island Sound in Fairfield County. A pretty rare sight -- seals seldom come onshore in that area unless ill -- the seal was judged by wildlife officials from Mystic Aquarium and Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to be about 1 or 2 years old and was in good health on Sasco Beach in the Town of Fairfield. "He was just soaking up the sun and rolling around," said Fairfield Animal Control Officer Paul Miller of the seal who showed up around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, M…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Body Of First Pygmy Sperm Whale On Long Island Sound Found Body Of First Pygmy Sperm Whale On Long Island Sound Found
Body Of First Pygmy Sperm Whale On Long Island Sound Found One week after a request for the person who had taken the carcass of a rare pygmy sperm whale from a beach in FairfieldCounty to return it, the whale has been recovered. The Town of Stratford said the whale, the first spotted on Long Island Sound, that washed up on Russian Beach before disappearing last month has been found. The statement was issued by officials with the town, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, which all worked together to retrieve the whale. "Pygmy sperm whales are rather elusive and this may mark&…

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by Kathy Reakes