Rehabilitated Eagle Release
Channel: FWCnotinuse
Date: 10/06/2014

Sometimes it takes a TEAM to save an animal; thanks to 12-year-old Jacob Borders for finding the eagle, and so many others for their help and support. Lakeland Fire Department, Polk County Animal Services, FWC Wildlife Biologist Angeline Scotten, Wildlife Rehabber Joan Waters, Dr. Schotman, Polk County Environmental Lands facility, The Audubon Center for Birds of Prey along with an untold number of volunteers and local residents.

TEAM work allows eagle to soar once again
One beautiful morning, a healthy great American icon soared back into the wide open sky, to the freedom it represents. The bald eagle's release was accompanied by oohs and aahs, delighted shouts and loud applause from those involved in its rescue as well by the smiles of dozens of others gathered to witness the event. So it could find its way home, it was returned to the wild in a park very near to where it had been found, entangled in monofilament line and up a tree last month. Considering the effort to save the eagle involved a significant number of partners, wildlife rehabilitator Joan Waters nicknamed the bird TEAM, an appropriate acronym standing for Together, Everybody Achieves More!