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       Hawk flies into car, lands in driver’s lap
   DIR By: zman
       Date: September 20, 2012, 7:52 pm
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       A red-tailed hawk that flew into a car traveling on a highway in
       Connecticut
  HTML http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Red-tailed-hawk-down-but-not-out-after-3855583.php—landing<br
       />on the driver's lap—has been released back into the wild.
       Dan Caitlin was driving along the Merritt Parkway in Trumbull,
       Conn., last week when the hawk flew into the windshield of his
       car, bounced off the side window and fell into his lap, animal
       control officials told the Fairfield Citizen
  HTML http://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Red-tailed-hawk-down-but-not-out-after-3855583.php:<blockquote>Caitlin<br
       />drove for a short distance with the stunned hawk in his lap,
       before pulling over and putting the raptor into the passenger
       seat. When he got home, he called the animal control staff,
       which picked up the injured hawk and kept it overnight before
       bringing it to a local veterinarian.</blockquote>Fairfield
       Animal Control officer Paul Miller told Yahoo News that the
       injured bird was transferred to a local veterinarian, treated
       and released several days later.
       The leafy suburb has had more than its share of raptor news.
       In March, town officials were forced to hire a falconer from the
       U.S. Department of Agriculture
  HTML http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/13/all-clear-falconer-captures-attacking-fairfield-hawk/<br
       />to capture a territorial red-shouldered hawk that had
       reportedly
       been attacking residents.
       The Connecticut Post detailed one of the attacks
  HTML http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Ludlowe-High-under-siege-from-red-tailed-hawk-2675888.php<br
       />reported at a high school:<blockquote>An administrator at the
       high school on Unquowa Road called police around 2:30 p.m. after
       she saw the hawk swoop down and graze the head of a female
       student. The student fled the area immediately after the
       attack.</blockquote>The falconer eventually nabbed one of two
       hawks purportedly going after Fairfield Ludlowe High's students.
       Meanwhile, two other injured red-tailed hawks—including one that
       also collided with a car on the Merritt Parkway—are slated to be
       released back into the wild at the 14th annual Hawk Watch
       Festival in Greenwich, Conn., on Sept. 22.
       "A raptor getting struck by a car—it's extremely common," Peter
       Reid, associate director of Wildlife in Crisis, told the paper
  HTML http://www.ctpost.com/entertainment/article/Rehabilitated-raptors-to-soar-at-annual-Hawk-3875485.php.
       According to WildlifeofCT.com
  HTML http://wildlifeofct.com/red-tailed%20hawk.html,
       red-tailed hawks
       are common in Connecticut:
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