Hawk nursed back to health near Chicago after being stuck and caught in train plow in western Canada

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1966874,ferruginous-hawk-nursed-back-to-health-123109.article

Hawk's amazing journey | Stuck in train plow for at least 1,000 miles, bird nursed back by rehab founder, may be used in education

December 31, 2009

BY MITCH DUDEK Staff Reporter

This bird went south for the winter the hard way.

A Ferruginous hawk was apparently struck by a train in western Canada -- and then got stuck in the front plow of the train for 1,000 to 2,000 miles.

It was finally discovered when the Canadian Pacific Railway train pulled into a train yard in Franklin Park.

"It's absolutely amazing that he lived through it," said Dawn Keller, founder of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, which operates rescue centers at Northerly Island, Itasca and Barrington.

Keller was called by a railroad worker after 11 p.m. one night last summer to come and rescue the bird.

Keller said she found the bird contorted like a pretzel and stuck between two pieces of metal. Keller said she didn't think it was alive, but when she touched its tail feather, it moved.

[katkat]

1. cripes

I don't now whether to be happy or overwhelmed with horror at what that hawk went through. So glad for a happy ending.

[xchrom]

2. Atta boy ferrug! This is a bird who wants to live! Nt

[DavidDvorkin]

3. This story makes

lots of mice and rabbits very depressed.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Wow. What a story. Glad he was rehabbed.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. just another illegal immigrant leaching off our healthcare system...

look how fucking bad the healthcare system in Canada is, this bird traveled by train hobo style to get american healthcare!