SURTIUS, NY (AP) – A little owl, dehydrated and hungry in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is returning to good health and preparing to leave on a wild Saturday.
The adult male so-wet owl was called Rockefeller, when a giant holiday tree was set up in Manhattan by a worker on Monday. The New Rena Spruce was brought to Manhattan on Saturday after cutting 170 miles (275 kilometers) northwest of the upper New York.
The bird was taken to the Ravensbird Wildlife Center in Hudson Valley, where it feeds on rats preparing to return to the wild, just before Saturday evening.
“I want to make sure he’s well fed before he leaves,” director Ellen Kalish told the Daily Freeman. On thursday. “He was a little thin on the side when he came in. He probably hadn’t eaten in several days. So I just want to make sure he’s at his best weight and health, and then he goes.”
“The owl is in” great condition, “with no bone fractures after the X-ray, Kalish said. She plans to free the owl from the center’s location in New York’s Sgt.
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