A conservation officer picked up what looked like a very dead Bald Eagle off the side of a British Colombia highway and placed it in the back seat of his van before continuing his journey to the local conservation office.
Mike Rice, in an interview with CBC, said he was driving north on Highway 97 when he stopped to collect an apparently dead eagle because it was attacked by crows!
After placing the bird in the back of his van, he continued his journey to 100 Mile House when he heard some rustling coming from the back of the vehicle! He looked back to see the eagle staring right at him!
“I’m like, hey, crap, this bird is alive!” Rice wrote in an email to CBC News.
Staff Sgt. Svend Nielsen, with the 100 Mile House RCMP, said that Officer Rice drove into the detachment parking lot saying he had a very much alive Bald Eagle in the back of the van.
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Sergeant Nielson said that it is possible the eagle had become concussed after being knocked out, later reviving in the back of the van. “You can kind of imagine it, you know, sort of spreading its wings around and trying to get readjusted again and I mean, how much of an impact it would have to you in a vehicle [that] was moving down the highway … you wouldn’t want that there,” he said.
Rice said RCMP contacted the B.C. Conservation Officer Service and an officer arrived quickly and transferred the bird to a crate.
“The bird got more lively and stood up for the first time and had its wings now partially up,” said Rice, who took this as a good sign.
Conservation officer Joel Kline was able to put a blanket around the full-size adult and it was taken to a local veterinarian to be examined. There are plans to take the eagle to a rehabilitation center in the Lower Mainland. Under the provincial Wildlife Act, it is illegal to possess a bald eagle in British Columbia.
Rice says this isn’t his first raptor rescue. He told CBC this is the second bald eagle he has found in distress and helped, the first being near Pitt Meadows, B.C. He said he also rescued an owl about three years ago, and it was rehabilitated at a Lower Mainland facility.
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