Ranger Rob and Trooper Head For Long Island and WINORR

                     Photo courtesy of the Horvaths, WINORR Facebook
                       Young Trooper, in the practiced hands of Ranger Rob.  

Urban Park Ranger Rob Mastrianni with Trooper, the likely poisoned fledgling of Pale Male and Zena, are on their way to Wild Life In Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, and rehab  with Cathy and Bobby Horvath.  And being a born and bred New York City human habituated Hawk,  Trooper doesn't look all that particularly unglued about the proceedings.  In fact she likely "knows" Rob and is even familiar with Cathy as she too has been in her sight before.


Once at WINORR, the fledgling will undergo tests, including a blood work up, to determine if she too, like her sibling already in residence,  shows the symptoms of secondary rodenticide poisoning.

Cathy will also make sure she eats, start her on Vitamin K and other detoxification regimens even before the tests come back, possibly treat her for frounce (just in case),  give her pain medication if necessary, and cover her with mothering as she does all the creatures under WINORR's care.

All this could have been prevented.  

It was human sloth that created it after all.


Donegal Browne

UPDATE FROM WINORR, THE HORWATHS

                     Photo Jeff Johnson
 Trooper the sick fledgling, from last evening before her rescue by Ranger Rob this morning.


 From WINORR:

"Thanks to Ranger Rob (NYC Parks Dept. Urban Park 
Ranger ) we now have the other ill sibling which he picked up this morning in Central Park. He's been monitoring the other fledgling and this morning was very low and looking lethargic and Rob knew catching it and getting it in for treatment was the best chance the bird has. Even though last night it appeared more alert today was back again looking tired. That is the pattern witnessed in past poisoning cases .  Good days and bad but eventually can be fatal if untreated . He did not witness either parent an the area or the last remaining sibling today."

My daughter Samantha is currently in Central Park searching for Pale Male, Zena, and Opera Star.  No luck yet.  It's hot so they may be lying low.

 
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Trooper, the Sick Fledgling, Now in Rehab with the Horvaths!

                              Photo by Jeff Johnson

Rob Mastrianni,  a Park's Department Ranger managed to lay hands on Trooper, the sick fledgling, this morning, Thursday.  He then delivered  her to the Horvath's, Wildlife in Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, in Long Island for testing and treatment.

Hawkwatchers are particularly fond of Ranger Rob.

Remember Ziggy, the fledgling of Pale Male Jr. and Charlotte, who was grounded in Ziegfeld Plaza?  It was Ranger Rob, who after Ziggy had been checked out by the Horvaths and given a clean bill of health,  spent the night sleeping under the tree in which  Ziggy was perched waiting for his parents to find him.  They did rather quickly.  Ziggy, rather like Opera Singer, has a good set of lungs.

Read more about Trooper!

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120726/upper-east-side-roosevelt-island/second-pale-male-baby-hawk-undergoes-rat-poisoning-test

AND MORE TO COME!