{"id":365016,"date":"2025-12-23T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365016\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:37:11","slug":"bald-eagle-flies-into-powerline-in-mansfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle flies into powerline in Mansfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANSFIELD, CT (WFSB) &#8211; A bald eagle flew into a powerline in Mansfield on Monday morning, animal rescuers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation and Education posted to social media that an eyewitness saw the bird of prey hit the line on Route 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">David Stevens, whom Horizon Wings said is a Connecticut licensed falconer, stepped in to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThanks to the quick response of the witness and other [passers by], David Stevens was able to contain the bird for transfer to Horizon Wings,\u201d Horizon Wings said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bird was immediately transferred to Tufts for evaluation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cA big thank you to Connecticut State Police Troop C Tolland who also responded to help keep this bird safe,\u201d the facility said. \u201cWe will update you on this bird\u2019s condition as soon as we have news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANSFIELD, CT (WFSB) &#8211; A bald eagle flew into a powerline in Mansfield on Monday morning, animal rescuers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7501,179616,179617,2000,20242,15861,179622,179621,179620,680,179618,179619,179623,79,201],"class_list":["post-365016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bald-eagle","tag-bald-eagle-hurt","tag-bald-eagle-injured","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-horizon-wings","tag-horizon-wings-raptor-rehabilitation","tag-horizon-wings-raptor-rehabilitation-and-education","tag-mansfield","tag-mansfield-bald-eagle","tag-mansfield-bald-eagle-injury","tag-mansfield-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365016","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=365016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}