{"id":372795,"date":"2026-06-24T09:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372795\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:18:45","slug":"injured-eagle-returned-to-the-wild-after-25-weeks-of-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372795\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured eagle returned to the wild after 25 weeks of treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/release-bald-eagle-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A bald eagle on Friday took flight for the first time in over 25 weeks, after being treated by a local wildlife rescue.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The eagle was taken in by the SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in late December of last year. The animal was diagnosed as having a broken coracoid, a bone essential for flight, and showed signs of having been electrocuted.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Staff at the center treated the animal with lifesaving medication and physical therapy to help the eagle regain its strength and return to life in the wild.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The team successfully returned the eagle to the wild on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>  The SPCA <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The SPCA Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is a full service wildlife rehabilitation center serving Monterey County. The facility treats over 2,500 animals each year.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The nonprofit organization is financed by community donations, and has been in Monterey since 1905.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A bald eagle on Friday took flight for the first time in over 25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100,143,145,144,7700],"class_list":["post-372795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pets-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}