[Animals] After rehabilitation, Águila was released in the O'Higgins foothills

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The specimen was at the Hacienda Cauquenes Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.

A Moorish eagle or Los Andes eagle -which was rescued by the SAG, thanks to a notice from a neighbor- returned to its natural habitat after completing its last stage of recovery at the Hacienda Cauquenes Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, a space for service that was created within the framework of the collaboration agreement between the UOH and the El Teniente Division of Codelco-Chile.

This, in view of the need for the SAG to have, in the region, a large enclosure that will specialize in the last stages of the process.

Where the specimens need to hunt again and exercise their muscles to fly.

 

 

The coordinator of the agreement, Simón Cox, explained that the freed eagle, after being rescued by SAG personnel, remained for a year and a half in the Safari Park, and then was transferred to the Hacienda Cauquenes Rehabilitation Center, where it lived again. experience of exercising the flight, hunting for food and developing the necessary musculature to return to its natural habitat, as it happened.

"This collaboration agreement is already bearing fruit, as is the case today, in which a fourth specimen is released to return to its habitat," said the director of the Institute of Agri-Food, Animal and Environmental Sciences, ICA3, of the UOH , Carolina Reyes.

Before they already lived this process, a conón owl and two specimens of owls.

 

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