Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Death of Red Tailed Hawk of North America, 12-12-2010

@08:43 a.m., Sunday, 12-12-2010, I called 911 to dispatch animal control

to my property. A man stopped below my mailbox, to rescue a hawk, he

saw injured on the side of the road. It had a visual broken right leg.



I placed the hawk, into a quilted box and put it inside, to avoid hypothermia.



The animal control arrived promptly, and the hawk I named Jason, stayed

at the ER Vet, from 9:30 a.m. - 04:00 p.m., being treated, until it was put

down, due to its extensive injuries, making it not a candidate for rehab.



Tears.



Jason comes from the Greek word which means, "healer, to heal".



As you scroll down, you will see the North American map displayed.



And the injury, death, of Red Tailed Hawk of North America, is a

date of grief, I will not forget, December 12, 2010.





http://www.hawkquest.org/mews/Red-tailed_Hawk.jpg



excerpt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk



The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on chickens[citation needed]. It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common buteos in North America. Red-tailed Hawks can acclimate to all the biomes within its range.





http://www.greece-map.net/north-america/north-america-map.gif





p.s.

For the reader's who scrolled down to this section, I want you to know, I am

never home on Sunday morning's. In 4 years, I have only been off Sunday

mornings, from my job, twice. And 12-12-10, was 1 of the 2 times I was here

to attend to the beautiful hawk, to give it a chance.





Betty C. Clark

P.O. Box 2303

Woodstock, Georgia 30189

(678)468-1804

bclarkgemetria@aol.com

http://biobettyculpepperclark.blogspot.com/
 
 
Click here: Thousands of dead birds and fish in Arkansas leave many scratching heads - Yahoo! News




excerpt

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads

Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum fish discovered by a tugboat captain over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River appears to be a natural occurrence that isn't tied to the bird kill in any way.



[Photos: Massive fish kill hits Louisiana]



"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish." He added that fish kills in the area are common, though this one was larger than most.



UPDATE: A state veterinarian tells NBC that preliminary necropsy results from several birds show that they died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs," though what caused the trauma remains uncertain. According to Dr. George Badley, their stomachs were empty, so they weren't poisoned, and they died in midair, not upon impact with the ground.