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Hawk rescued from Anniston roadway injured but okay
Thursday, July 25, 2013
A juvenile red-tailed hawk similar to the one shown above was rescued by Anniston Museum of Natural History curator Dan Spaulding on Thursday morning (Photo: wikipedia.org)
(WDNG) - A red-tailed hawk rescued from an Anniston roadway is recovering at a local vet’s office. Anniston Museum of Natural History curator Dan Spaulding on Tuesday morning rescued the bird after he received two calls from motorists about a bird that appeared injured on the Eastern Bypass.
Sometime after 9 a.m. on Thursday, Spaulding grabbed a cage, a net and gloves and sped from the museum to the bypass near Henry Rd. There he saw both the bird and a small rat he believes the hawk was stalking.
“I could tell he was a little dazed, but he was up,” Spaulding said. “He looked pretty good and I didn’t see any blood.”
Spaulding said he used a net and thick gloves to rescue the hawk from the road. Spaulding then put the hawk into a cage and went straight to Animal Medical Center on Quintard Ave.
Dr. Tom Nelson with the vet’s office did a preliminary examination of the hawk and noticed an injury to the bird’s right shoulder, right eye and beak. Spaulding has a theory as to what happened to the hawk saying “a car might have come by, spooked him, he might have flew up and hit the side.”
Dr. Nelson was unavailable for comment on Thursday afternoon, but Animal Medical Center staff said the bird was stable and alert and would receive more in-depth care later in the day.
Spaulding said if the bird can make a full recovery, it would be released into the wild in the Golden Springs area where it was originally found. If injuries leave the hawk disabled, Spaulding said it would be moved to the museum’s Bird of Prey trail.
Spaulding believes the hawk is about two years old based on its coloring and has been named Max after the caller who first informed the museum about the injured bird.
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