Sometimes even birds of prey need a little help.<\/p>\n
Members of the NYPD\u2019s harbor unit recovered an injured bald eagle from an ice floe on the Hudson River while on patrol Monday, the department said.<\/p>\n
Police body-camera footage posted to social media by the NYPD shows the eagle standing alone and calling out on a patch of ice near the George Washington Bridge around 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis claw\u2019s bleeding, too,\u201d one of the service members observes as the crew approaches with an animal-control pole extended toward the bird. \u201cIt\u2019s alright, bro. It\u2019s alright.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crew inches closer to the eagle and uses a yellow sheet to scoop it up from the ice and onto the boat, the video shows. They cover the bird in a blanket and put it in a crate on board.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey acted quickly and brought the bird to safety,\u201d the NYPD said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
NYPD officials did not describe the animal\u2019s injuries but said it was brought to the Raptor Trust wild bird rehabilitation center in Millington, New Jersey, for treatment.<\/p>\n
Christopher Soucy, the trust’s executive director, said Wednesday that the eagle was still in critical condition and not yet stable enough to undergo diagnostic tests, including x-rays and blood work.<\/p>\n
He said the center, which admits up to a dozen bald eagles and 6,000 total birds each year, was trying to get the eagle healthy enough for further treatment.<\/p>\n
The eagle is banded, allowing center workers to determine it is a 21-year-old male, Soucy added.<\/p>\n
Brittany Kriegstein contributed reporting. This story has been updated with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes even birds of prey need a little help. Members of the NYPD\u2019s harbor unit recovered an injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-476902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476902","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=476902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}