Hawk found injured in Provincetown recovering at Wild Care

[Donna]

A wounded young male red-tailed hawk (pictured above) who was found in a bird coop on Sal and Josephine Del Deo’s property off Atkins Mayo Road late Saturday afternoon is on the mend.

The hawk was rescued by Dennis Minsky and brought to Wild Care, Cape Cod’s emergency wildlife clinic on the Eastham-Orleans border. The hawk had raided the bird coop, killing and eating a duck. When he attempted to escape, he flew into a wall and ruptured his crop, resulting in a three-inch wound to the skin and muscles of his neck. Feathered duck flesh was protruding from the rupture site.

Wild Care’s team of rehabilitators stabilized the hawk all day Sunday. On Monday morning anesthesia and surgery to repair the rupture site was donated by Dr. Louise Morgan of Brewster Veterinary Hospital. Now on a diet of soft food and antibiotics, the hawk is recuperating well and is expected to recover fully, reported Lela Larned, director of Wild Care.

This is only the second poultry casualty the Del Deos have seen in their 50 years of having a coop, Larned said.

Wild Care is now selling tickets for its annual Wild Winter Night, an auction and fish fry at the Chatham VFW on Jan. 16. For details visit wildcarecapecod.org.

One of Quest's old stomping grounds.

[valhalla]

It's ok, but my skin crawled with the description of what this guy did to himself    Glad he's going to be ok 

[Donna]

It's ok, but my skin crawled with the description of what this guy did to himself    Glad he's going to be ok 

yeah that was pretty graphic  Janet....poor boy.