Injured Twin Eagle Taken From River In Effective Rescue By College Staff In Maryland (WATCH)

A bald eagle, injured and alone near Chesapeake Bay, earned an A+ for Washington College staff after their courageous rescue from the rocky shores of the Chester River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Two weeks ago, David Kramer noticed a post on Facebook asking if anyone could help with an eagle that appeared to have an injured wing and leg and was wandering around the harbor. over the river.

Kramer, who is Director of the College’s Environmental Center, where students are provided with a living laboratory for their studies of wetlands, fields and forests. He also happens to be an experienced bird rescuer.

He quickly grabbed two other department workers, along with a net and a blanket, and got into the truck to find the bird, which was not expected to surrender easily.

After approaching the raptor, it tried to fly across the river and crashed into the water, so they drove across the bridge and were able to get into the backyard where the eagle lived. across the beach.

Kramer quickly approached the bird and took a video of the employee (see below) shows how he secured the animal’s legs before lifting it up and taking it to shore.

Emma Cease helped tuck the broken wing into a padded blanket as they wrapped the eagle on the trip back to the River and Field Campus—while it rested quietly in her lap.

Kramer, who has years of experience rescuing, researching, and working with bald eagles and other birds, is a registered rescuer at Tristate Bird Rescue, where the eagle became a patient, and he is probably still recovering from surgery today.

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She also works with the Moon Owl Raptor Center in the Chesapeake Bay area and urges people to call experts if they see an eagle or other large bird in need anywhere near this brackish bay— which is the third largest area in the world.

“If you don’t have experience handling, DO NOT approach the bird,” warns Kramer. “Bald eagles have three sharp points, if they can get you with one, they will. The point is to get the bird safely restrained. We want to reduce the risk to humans as well and the bird.”

Washington College does not know how to meet birds. Last year, staff at its Foreman’s Branch Bird Observatory caught, identified, banded and released more than 13,000 birds representing more than 125 species—including the giants: owls, ospreys, -osprey, falcons and hawks.

Located on the Chester River, a few miles north of Chestertown, MD, the Bird Observatory sits on a waterfront refuge on the College’s River and Field Campus.

The country serves as an important seabird habitat, and is home to thousands of migrating and wintering ducks and geese each year.

This unique campus spans nearly 5,000 acres of diverse landscape, just minutes from its main campus in Chestertown, including 2.5 miles from the Chester River waterfront, the lake 90 hectares of fresh water, many streams and seasonal wetlands, 1,200 hectares of forest, 3,000 hectares of agriculture. fields, and 228 acres of restored woodlands with native grasses that have allowed the northern bobwhite (also known as Virginia quail) to thrive. The property also has 50 acres of managed, landscaped habitat for one of the most active bird stations on the East Coast, handling about 14,000 birds a year.

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If you see an injured raptor, but it’s not in its natural habitat, Kramer says you can seek help from local rehabbers.

The recovery of bald eagles in all 48 states is a major conservation achievement of America’s Endangered Species Act, with estimates showing that numbers that declined in the 20th century will have quadrupled by 2020. in just 11 years – rising to an estimated 316,700 birds, including 71,400 nesting ones, from just 417 in 1963.

The United States government saved this bald eagle by calling it one of the first species to be given full protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

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