This is the proper technique for releasing an eagle back to the wild.
Eyes to the sky. Feet wide apart. Tongue out. Eagle wondering what the heck is happening.
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Trooper Paul Kingery is no rookie at this eagle stuff. Perhaps you remember the last time he and the eagle, now known as Trooper, met.
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He was plucking it — poor choice of words, perhaps — off the ground after it had been struck by a car about a month ago.
At the Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center today, Kingery got some advice on how one dispatches an eagle into the air…
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.. and then followed the instructions completely. More or less.
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Stay away from the cars, Trooper.
You too, Trooper.