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Red-Tail Hawk Rescued 6 Weeks Ago on SR 60 in Badlands Returned to Wild

The red-tailed hawk was believed to be injured when found next to a center divider on the busy 60 freeway May 12. The same Animal Services officer who rescued the raptor helped release it Thursday, then cried.

A red-tailed hawk rescued six weeks on State Route 60 in the Badlands west of Beaumont was released Thursday by the same Animal Services officer who rescued the raptor, and by the Project Wildlife volunteers who nursed it back to health.

Officer Caitlin Barron, 28, of Riverside County Animal Services, and Anysia and Ken Dickson, both 40, of Project Wildlife, set the hawk free Thursday afternoon on Jack Rabbit Trail, south of the 60.

For more information about Project Wildlife, visit http://www.projectwildlife.org/.

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For more information about the county Department of Animal Services, visit http://rcdas.org/home/


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