The bird underwent surgery for a fractured humerus at Cornell University’s Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital before being transferred to Messinger Woods Wildlife Care and Education in Holland, NY for rehabilitation where it made a full recovery.
On Aug. 18, 2021, DEC wildlife staff banded the eagle and on Sept. 19, 2021, staff at Messinger Woods released it near where it was originally rescued.
In February 2025 DEC received a report of this eagle alive and well in Georgia. Staff from Birds Georgia, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, photographed the bird in October 2024 as it perched on a sand dune along the Cumberland Island National Seashore…