A barred owl had been found badly hurt in Virginia, as was a bald eagle. The birds were taken to a rescue center, but the owl didn't make it.
A barred owl that had been brought to a Virginia rescue center by a homeless man who found it severely injured on the side of a road has died, and experts are closely monitoring a bald eagle that was also being treated after it was hurt.Rescuers at Blue Ridge Wildlife Center in Boyce, Va., said the owl had to be euthanized Tuesday after an infection it had developed turned into sepsis. The owl’s saga started earlier this month. It was brought to the wildlife center Feb.
“It looked depressed,” Riley said. She said it didn’t want to eat mice, so rescuers force-fed it. The owl couldn’t keep the mice down, so experts thought medications could be causing sickness and stopped administering them. Several rounds of bloodwork and tests showed that the owl had an infection, probably from its leg fracture, and sepsis, which probably caused the gastrointestinal problems.
A necropsy of the owl confirmed that “there was dead tissue in the heart and kidneys which explained why he was looking so bad these last few days,” Riley said.
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