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jpak

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Mon Jan 21, 2019, 10:01 AM Jan 2019

Great black hawk in Portland rescued during snowstorm (Maine)

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/01/20/great-black-hawk-in-portland-rescued-during-snowstorm/

The great black hawk that has been living at Deering Oaks in Portland had to be rescued after being found on the ground during Sunday’s snowstorm.

Volunteers transported the injured bird to Avian Haven in Freedom, a nonprofit wild bird rehabilitation center.

“The roads were treacherous but an undaunted team of volunteer transporters helped get the bird safely to Freedom,” Avian Haven wrote in a post on its Facebook page. “The hawk arrived here around 5 p.m. and is now settled into an intensive care unit for the night.”

Great black hawks are native to Central and South America. It was first seen in August in Biddeford, but was later spotted at Deering Oaks. Bird watchers are not sure how it ended up in Maine, but every year birds like this one – called vagrants by ornithologists – fly outside their geographic range.

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Hope it pulls through - I'm surprised it lasted this long!

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Great black hawk in Portland rescued during snowstorm (Maine) (Original Post) jpak Jan 2019 OP
Glad they saved him/her. I hope it survives. I wonder if it does survive, will they deport Fla Dem Jan 2019 #1
I hope 0range45 does not find out about this bird. Big trouble if the volunteers NCjack Jan 2019 #2
Update - it had frostbite on its feet - it's doing better jpak Jan 2019 #3

Fla Dem

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1. Glad they saved him/her. I hope it survives. I wonder if it does survive, will they deport
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 10:36 AM
Jan 2019

it to it's natural geographic range. After all it is an illEAGLE" alien from Central/South America.

NCjack

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2. I hope 0range45 does not find out about this bird. Big trouble if the volunteers
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:39 AM
Jan 2019

provided water, food, and shelter.

jpak

(41,741 posts)
3. Update - it had frostbite on its feet - it's doing better
Mon Jan 21, 2019, 12:24 PM
Jan 2019
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/01/21/news/portland/rare-hawk-rescued-from-portland-park-during-storm/

A great black hawk that made itself at home in Portland’s Deering Oaks Park was rescued during Sunday’s storm after suffering from frostbite.

Two volunteers came across the bird on Sunday morning, and the raptor was on the ground and unable to stand under its own power, according to Avian Haven, a wild bird rehabilitation center in Freedom.

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“The hawk seemed nearly dead when it left Portland, but was provided with plenty of heat for the trip and had its eyes open when checked at the Topsham hand-off,” Avian Haven wrote in the post.

Native to Central and South America, the great black hawk is the first of its kind to be spotted in the United States, Doug Hitchcox, an Audubon staff naturalist, told the BDN in November. Its appearance in Portland late last year made it a minor celebrity as birders flocked to Deering Oaks to catch a glimpse of the rare bird.

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