{"id":756977,"date":"2026-07-11T16:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/756977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:17:30","slug":"rescued-hawk-recovering-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-boulder-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/756977\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued hawk recovering after being struck by vehicle in Boulder County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young red-tailed hawk is on its way to recovery after it was struck by a vehicle in Boulder County.<\/p>\n<p>The hawk became stuck in the vehicle\u2019s front grille after it was hit last week in the area of Niwot Road and Colorado 119, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FuauairBX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s Office social media post<\/a>. Sheriff\u2019s Office Animal Protection used bolt cutters to free the bird.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A young red-tailed hawk is recovering after it was struck by a vehicle near Niwot Road and Colorado 119 in Boulder County. (Courtesy of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"1536\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DCC-Z-BRIEF-HAWK-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7805140\" \/>A young red-tailed hawk is recovering after it was struck by a vehicle near Niwot Road and Colorado 119 in Boulder County. (Courtesy of the Boulder County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n<p>The hawk had a broken pelvis and shoulder and was taken to the Birds of Prey Foundation rehabilitation center, a Broomfield-area nonprofit that has helped 255 birds so far this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birds-of-prey.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to its website<\/a>. The young hawk is now stable and eating on its own, and the rehabilitation team is hopeful it will recover, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to see this young hawk back in the skies,\u201d the post reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young red-tailed hawk is on its way to recovery after it was struck by a vehicle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[18882,3832,4142,2558,3,79,201],"class_list":["post-756977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756977","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=756977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}