Rehabilitated Bald Eagle Released by UC Davis

Woodland Daily Democrat

August 30, 2013

An adult bald eagle brought to the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will be released back into the wild near Redding today. The eagle will be released by Bret Stedman, manager of the California Raptor Center, at 11 a.m. near the city’s Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay Exploration Park. Stedman will put on leather gloves, remove the eagle from its enclosure and hold it before tossing it into the air for release. “To treat the eagle, UCD veterinarians worked with Cook Medical, which donated a device known as Small Intestinal Submucosa Extracellular Matrix that was used to heal the eagle’s flesh wounds that accompanied its fractures,” said UCD’s Rob Warren in a statement.

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