bloody and injured bald eagle<\/a> floating on ice in the Hudson River was rescued Wednesday by NYPD Harbor cops who swooped in with a pole to save him.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was squawking. We knew it was in distress,\u201d Sgt.\u00a0Mike Russo said at a press conference\u00a0 Wednesday.\u00a0\u201cWe rescue anything and anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
The injured eagle was trapped in an ice flow in the Hudson River. NYPD<\/p>\n
The boat cops were on patrol at around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, when they heard the massive majestic critter screeching in frigid temperatures near the George Washington Bridge, Russo said.<\/p>\n
Police steered their vessel through chunks of ice towards the sitting duck bird and soon saw its face and wing covered in blood.<\/p>\n
The officers then extended a catch pole to rescue the bird, wrapped him in a blanket and placed him in a pet carrier.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took all four of us,\u201d Russo said. \u201cWe were concerned about its talons, whether it was going to attack us.\u201d<\/p>\n
All told, the rescue took about 30 minutes, thanks to the \u2014\u00a0literally \u2014 eagle-eyed cops.<\/p>\n
Cops spotted the eagle with a bloody face and wing. NYPD<\/p>\n
Harbor cops Sgt. Mike Amelo, Det. Nick Martin, P.O. Patrick Memi and P.O. Michael Russo rescued the eagle Wednesday. Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/p>\n
The yet-to-be-named bird, which appeared to have a broken wing, was later brought to The Raptor Trust animal sanctuary in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Bald eagles have frequently been spotted in the Big Apple near the Hudson River in the winter,\u00a0 with populations making a significant comeback in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They took him under their wing! A bloody and injured bald eagle floating on ice in the Hudson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7223,6346,5871,4036,38470,79,194,201],"class_list":["post-478173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-eagles","tag-metro","tag-nypd","tag-rescues","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478173","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=478173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}