SOAR News & Notes
A trumpeter swan from the Swan Lake State Park reintroduction project was admitted with symptoms that indicate pneumonia. The swan is in isolation and receiving twice a day antibiotics and…
A motorist hit a juvenile red-tailed hawk, stopped, and made several phone calls to get the hawk some help. Thank you! This young hawk has a fractured radius ulna in…
A juvenile red-tailed hawk was unable to fly and was rescued in Dallas County. As you can see in the photo… the left wing primaries are missing. Flight doesn’t happen…
Cherokee County Conservation staff rescued a red-tailed hawk that has road rash and does not want to stand. Best guess is that the hawk was hit by a vehicle. The…
Our first admit of the year is a great horned owl from Plymouth County that likely had a bad encounter with a moving vehicle. Has a right wing injury and…
A Guthrie County farmer checked the inside a grain storage bin (he was about to unload corn into the bin) and found fuzzy bird residents. He made a quick call…
Bob Anderson of Raptor Resource Project was at the Decorah Trout Hatchery on the 22nd and received word that an eaglet was downed in the trout stream nearby. Bob waded…
On 26 September 2013, our dear friend, Marla, received a call about a falcon running along the railroad track west of Knoxville. A Burlington Northern Railroad employee took the time…
Jasper County eagle nest watchers reported that the nest had collapsed in the wildlife area north of Rock Creek State Park and an eaglet needed rescuing. SOAR friend Marla got…
The thunderstorms / high winds over the weekend of 14-15 April took down an eagle nest in Dolliver State Park (SE of Fort Dodge). According to personal communication with the…