HOUGHTON, MI \u2013 A young red-tailed hawk soared back into the wilderness of Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula this week. <\/p>\n
It had been one month since Michigan State Police troopers rescued the injured raptor. Those same troopers were on hand for the release on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Video shared by MSP shows that one of them donned the animal handling gloves and set the recovered hawk free. In the video, a trooper can be seen standing at the edge of a field holding the hawk in two hands and then lifting his hand off the hawk\u2019s back and wings. The hawk then spreads its wings and flies toward a wooded area. <\/p>\n
On Oct. 15, troopers from the MSP Houghton Lake Post rescued the hawk, which was suffering from a severe concussion and a ruptured air sac, officials said. For more than a month, the bird was healing and regaining strength in the care of the Association to Rescue Kritters<\/a> (A.R.K.). <\/p>\n The release happened at the exact spot where the troopers found the hawk, A.R.K. said on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYesterday, the same troopers who saved him were there to release him back into the wild,\u201d MSP Spl\/Lt. Ashley Miller said. \u201cThis resilient hawk is now ready to continue his journey through life.\u201d <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUGHTON, MI \u2013 A young red-tailed hawk soared back into the wilderness of Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula this week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14144,1151,1997,19808,79,201],"class_list":["post-306062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-bird","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}