Tag: Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle Nursed Back to Health Released into Wild

An injured bald eagle that was nursed back to health in northern West Virginia has been released back into the wild.

More than 200 people gathered Saturday for the release of Liberty.

The Fairmont-based West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center cared for the young bald eagle.

Center found Michael Book says the bird was brought to the center before the July 4 holiday after being found at a Kingwood car dealership. It had previously suffered tissue damage from a collision, and Book says it was dehydrated.

Book says Liberty has more than doubled her weight.

New River Bald Eagle Hit by Train and Vehicle Dies

A female bald eagle that nested in the New River Gorge has died from injuries suffered last month when she was hit by a train and later by a vehicle.
 
 
Three Rivers Avian Center executive director Wendy Perrone says the eagle, named Streaky, was euthanized Monday after she failed to regain the use of her legs and her liver shut down.

Perrone tells the Charleston Gazette that Streaky couldn’t eat, drink or respond favorably to injections of fluids in recent days.
 
 
The eagle collided with the windshield of a passenger train locomotive in the gorge on March 7. She later was hit by a vehicle.
 
 
Streaky and her mate, Whitey, had nested in the gorge since 2010.
 
 

Bald Eagle Hit by Train in New River Gorge

A bald eagle has survived a collision with an Amtrak train in the New River Gorge.
 
Wendy Perrone with the Three Rivers Avian Center tells the Charleston Gazette that the female eagle is the mate of a male eagle that was hit by another Amtrak train in 2013.
 
Perrone says the female eagle was hit last Friday near the pair’s nesting site at the south end of the New River Gorge National River between Sandstone and Hinton.
 
Perrone says the eagle was spotted last Saturday sitting along the tracks. It flew across the river to the pair’s old nesting site when approached.
 
The avian center is monitoring the eagles’ current nest. Perrone says the pair was observed mating but no eggs or young eaglets could be seen.
 
 

Bald Eagle from W.Va. Bird of Prey Center Dies

The most prominent resident of a bird rehabilitation center in Fairmont has died.

  Liz Snyder of the West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center says the bald eagle Thunder died Dec. 21 — exactly 21 years after arriving at the center with a gunshot wound that left her unable to survive in the wild.  

According to the Times-West Virginian, Thunder was being treated for a respiratory infection before dying in the arms of center director Michael Book, who had taken care of the bird since 1992.

Snyder says Thunder was the center’s most visible symbol. Her picture appeared on the center’s website, and Snyder says that when people thought of the center, they thought of Thunder.

Book says he will always remember Thunder as “proud, intelligent and fearless.”

 

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