{"id":481625,"date":"2026-02-21T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481625\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:16:08","slug":"bald-eagle-rescued-from-hudson-river-ice-is-doing-better-but-not-out-of-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481625\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle rescued from Hudson River ice is doing better, but not out of the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bald eagle rescued from an ice floe on the Hudson River earlier this week is showing signs of progress, although it remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n

Police body camera footage of the eagle seen calling for help while floating on a block of ice near the George Washington Bridge on Tuesday morning captured the attention of New Yorkers on social media.<\/p>\n

Police were able to rescue<\/a> the bird and transport it to the Raptor Trust wild bird rehabilitation center in Millington, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

And as of Friday afternoon, the eagle was eating on its own and its condition could be best described as \u201cguarded,\u201d according to Chris Soucy, the rehab center\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still critical, it\u2019s not really stable enough for us to even want to perform all the diagnostics that we would like to perform,\u201d Soucy said.<\/p>\n

The bird, which was displaying neurological symptoms, was also showing elevated liver numbers and a high white blood cell count, he said.<\/p>\n

Soucy said the Raptor Trust had already begun treatment for liver toxicity, and any infection or inflammation that could possibly be indicated by the high white blood cell count.<\/p>\n

The bird is still not able to undergo an X-ray or ultrasound, but blood drawn from the eagle is being sent out for a panel for more information.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe treat 6,000 patients here a year \u2014 there\u2019s dozens of other patients in care right now,\u201d Soucy said. \u201cThey\u2019re all \u2014 to us \u2014 just as important. But this is the one that is getting the attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raptor Trust said it\u2019s also been in contact with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and New Jersey\u2019s fish and wildlife department about the bird\u2019s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bald eagle rescued from an ice floe on the Hudson River earlier this week is showing signs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-481625","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\/481625","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=481625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}