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SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) Rocky the stowaway owl is back in the wild.
The tiny Saw-whet owl was named Rockefeller after it was found by a worker setting up the holiday tree Nov. 16 at Manhattans Rockefeller Center. The owl was apparently trapped in the 75-foot-tall (23-meter-tall) Norway spruce when it was cut down 170 miles (275 kilometers) north, in upstate New York on Nov. 12.
The female owl, initially thought to be male, was uninjured but hadnt eaten for at least three days when she was discovered and sent to Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in the Hudson Valley town of Saugerties. There, a rehabilitator nursed her back to health for a week with plenty of mice before Rocky was cleared to continue her migratory journey south.
On Tuesday evening, rehabilitator Ellen Kalish held the winsome raptor aloft in a field against a backdrop of rounded mountains. In a video posted on Ravensbeards Facebook page, Rocky sits quietly on Kalishs fingers before winging her way over to a nearby grove of pines.
She is a tough little bird and were happy to see her back in her natural habitat, the center wrote on Facebook. We are sure that Rocky will feel your love and support through her journey south.
https://apnews.com/article/rockefeller-christmas-tree-owl-free-57b15fb22b2141b4ab09882d58512007
dware
(12,361 posts)Rocky is back where she belongs, wild and free.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Takket
(21,553 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)marmar
(77,072 posts)dware
(12,361 posts)the article says she was released to continue migrating to the south, she probably just happened to be in the wrong tree at the wrong time resting for her next leg of her journey.
2naSalit
(86,522 posts)I wonder how far from where she started out they released her. Would be best if they returned her to the area near where the tree used to be.