{"id":466275,"date":"2025-12-23T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466275\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:07:16","slug":"bald-eagle-flies-into-powerline-in-mansfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466275\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle flies into powerline in Mansfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANSFIELD, CT (WFSB) &#8211; A bald eagle flew into a powerline in Mansfield on Monday morning, animal rescuers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation and Education posted to social media that an eyewitness saw the bird of prey hit the line on Route 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">David Stevens, whom Horizon Wings said is a Connecticut licensed falconer, stepped in to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThanks to the quick response of the witness and other [passers by], David Stevens was able to contain the bird for transfer to Horizon Wings,\u201d Horizon Wings said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bird was immediately transferred to Tufts for evaluation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cA big thank you to Connecticut State Police Troop C Tolland who also responded to help keep this bird safe,\u201d the facility said. \u201cWe will update you on this bird\u2019s condition as soon as we have news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANSFIELD, CT (WFSB) &#8211; A bald eagle flew into a powerline in Mansfield on Monday morning, animal rescuers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[30253,212129,212130,2738,17963,7000,212135,212134,212133,40219,212131,212132,212136,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-466275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bald-eagle","9":"tag-bald-eagle-hurt","10":"tag-bald-eagle-injured","11":"tag-connecticut","12":"tag-connecticut-news","13":"tag-ct-news","14":"tag-horizon-wings","15":"tag-horizon-wings-raptor-rehabilitation","16":"tag-horizon-wings-raptor-rehabilitation-and-education","17":"tag-mansfield","18":"tag-mansfield-bald-eagle","19":"tag-mansfield-bald-eagle-injury","20":"tag-mansfield-news","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115768095073753715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}