Polk Co red-tailed hawk

Admission Date: 10 February 2019
Outcome: 3 June 2019 released!
Location of Rescue: Polk County, IA
Cause of Admission / Condition: Collision
Patient Status: Patient Archive

Thanks to Iowa Bird Rehabilitation (our songbird partner) for rescuing this red-tailed hawk from someone’s yard. This hawk definitely collided with something and has head injury and issues with left eye.

Updates:

15 February 2019
SOAR volunteer transporter Deb started this hawk on eye drops to ease the swelling and Kay reports that the eye looks much better.