Injured seal found at Robert Moses park

Long Islanders on a shoreline walk Sunday found a wounded juvenile male gray seal on the sand at Robert Moses State Park's Field 5.

Park officials contacted the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, who brought the seal to the foundation's hospital at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead.

Julika Wocial, supervisor of the foundation's rescue program, said the seal's jaw was broken and infected, and biologists had started the pup on antibiotics.

Soon after biologists from the Riverhead Foundation rescued the injured seal, they were back out at a beach in Nassau County for another seal spotted on a beach at Point Lookout.

Wocial said the pup was healthy and did not need any assistance.

Wocial said her group also picked up at least two dead seals Sunday, one found at Montauk and the other at Oak Beach. Both were collected for examination to find out how they died.

"Our team has been pretty busy today," she said.

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April is a popular time for gray seals to swim through Long Island waters, Wocial said. She said the foundation receives calls from seal-spotters on a routine basis -- anywhere from five to 30 times a day -- and checks out each case.

Wocial encouraged anybody who spots a marine mammal or sea turtle dead or in distress to call the foundation's hotline at 631-369-9829.

With T.C. McCarthy

and Erin Geismar