He won't be able to soar into the skies or skim the waters with his wings, but a bald eagle treated at a veterinary college at the University of Prince Edward Island after being hit by a car in October 2021 is doing well and settling in a new home.
Bald eagle 450 — the 450th patient of the Atlantic Veterinary College hospital in 2021 — is believed to be only the second bird in the world to receive surgery for a spinal cord compression.
When 450 was brought into the clinic, he had extensive head injuries and small cuts and bruises on his legs, she said. "He had a lot of blood on his head and all his feathers on his head were gone.""We thought, 'What's going on?' We took X-rays and we noticed that there was an issue with the spine, but we couldn't see precisely what it was. We did a CT scan."
The eagle would stand and lean on its wrists, which caused injury because the skin in that area is delicate, de Bie said. It also had some wounds on its feet and wasn't able to perch, she added."We thought, 'Well, are we going to heal all of this? Is it going to happen?' But this eagle showed so much determination and improvement every time that we were so encouraged that we kept on going ....
The bird will be driven in Friday from P.E.I. to Halifax and take up residence in a 15-metre-long, three-metre-high enclosure built for him that boasts an ocean view to one side and a wooded area on another.
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