When a Stunned Hawk Was Found On a Sidewalk, Social Media Came Together to Rescue It

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network

.@NYCAudubon @wildbirdfund @NYCACC @nyc311 There is a hawk sitting on Front Street close to the corner of Front and Wall. He’s been there for a while and might need special care! pic.twitter.com/Pz4bCbQAZW

— Madeleine Lilia (@freechampagne)

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When it comes to birds online, we usually only gawk,
But social media, this time, helped rescue an injured hawk.

It all started when Madeleine Weatherhead was walking to work through downtown Manhattan in New York City, when she saw an adult female raptor standing on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant.

“The bird looked disoriented. It was staring off and wasn’t even paying attention to the fact that there were people close to it,” Weatherhead told The New York Post.

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When the 27-year-old Brooklyn woman spoke to the restaurant staffers, they said that they believed the bird had become stunned from flying into the window.

Weatherbread then called the Animal Care Center of…

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