![]() ![]() “It was badly abraded with a lot of cuts on its wing,” said Don Bonica, a state and federally licensed rehabilitation expert for birds, who runs the care center with his wife, Karen. ![]() The injured eagle was taken to Toms River Avian Care. The gender of the bird is hard to tell because of its age, he said, but his best guess is a female because of the size females are larger than males. “Eagles have the toughest time the first two years after leaving the nest – survival,” he said. It was hatched March 30 and fledged the nest around the third week of June, he said. They don’t get the white head and tail feathers until they are closer to 5 years old, he said.īohinc witnessed the mother of the injured eagle lay the egg that produced the bird. These are among the most at risk for extinction. Releasing that detail would only attract the public and cause more problems for the eagles there, he said. Neither Bohinc nor the sheriff’s office identified where in Monmouth County the nest is. The certified tower climbers, Rafael Vallejo and Ricky Gutierrez, work for Let's Think Wireless based in Pine Brook. He instructed them to approach the eagle from behind instead of facing its talons. An eagle only stands 2 feet tall but its wingspan is 6 feet, which can easily scare people when they encounter it. He also didn't want them overwhelmed by the bird while working more than 10 stories up. The firefighters brought a ladder truck, but the ladder fell short of reaching the eagle, which was 141 feet above the ground, Bohinc said, basing that distance on what he learned at the scene.īohinc was on hand to instruct the climbers about how to approach the eagle so it didn’t further injure itself or get loose. According to a Facebook post from the sheriff's office, a string of other calls followed that rallied firefighters and technical climbers to save the bird in the rescue on July 12 that lasted about six and a half hours. He made some calls to the SPCA and others. “Nobody wants to see this eagle die up there.” "I just happen to be going by this location and saw it in need,” Bohinc said. The retired Middletown businessman remembered when the bird was hatched, when it fledged its nest and how many siblings it had - two. He's a volunteer for the state, monitoring eagles' nests. He saw a young eagle caught in the telecommunications tower for the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office and already knew the nest and the birds. Watch Video: Monmouth County: Bald Eagle gets caught in communication towerīlake Bohinc knows the bald eagles of Monmouth County. ![]()
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