This amazing baby Golden Eagle, "TWIG" was found sitting in the middle of a highway. She was luckily found by Mark McCarthy of McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary in West Palm Beach, FL. He was vacationing in Wyoming and knew how to handle large birds of prey so he gathered her up and had her transported to IBR. She was almost starved to death but quickly gained the needed weight on a diet of rats and rabbits. When she proved to me that she could catch and kill live prey she was taken to a very wonderful habitat and released along with another young female eagle of the same age.
As 80% of all raptor babies don't make it through their first winter it was awe inspiring seeing these two young birds fly away. The hope is that they continued their lives and will be successful in finding a mate and raising young of their own.
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