Bald Eagle "Volunteer" Escape and Capture: The Entire Story (AEF)

During a storm in September 2011, a tree in the Bald Eagle aviary at Dollywood fell over, ripping a hole in the netted ceiling of the aviary. Bald Eagle "Volunteer" discovered the hole before his human caregivers, and made his escape, leaving "Hero" his mate of 22 years behind. For three weeks and 2 days, caregivers from the American Eagle Foundation searched for Volunteer, responding at all hours of the day and night to sightings of Volunteer, called in by people in the area. Finally, on Sunday morning, October 4th, Volunteer was safely captured and after getting a clean bill of health (altho underweight), was reunited with Hero.

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• Bald Eagle
• Volunteer
• Hero
• American Eagle Foundation
• capture of Volunteer.