An injured young eagle which arrived at the Reykjavík Zoo at the end of January is recovering and greeting curious visitors. According to a post on the Facebook page of the Reykjavík family zoo the eagle has been moved into an outdoor enclosure which has housed several other birds of prey which have been nursed back to health at the zoo.
At the end of January travellers in the Berserkjahraun lava field, west of the town of Stykkishólmur town on the north coast of Snæfellsnes peninsula in West Iceland, spotted an eagle which had trouble flying. Initially it was feared the eagle had a broken wing, but after local farmers and the director of West Iceland Centre of Natural History captured the eagle and sent it to Reykjavík, where it was inspected by veterinarians, it was found to only have lost several of its flying feathers.
The young female eagle hatched in the summer of 2015, making it less than one year old. Had she not been found and moved to the Reykjavík family zoo she might not have made it through her first winter, but now she is set to soar in the skies next summer. She is making great progress, the Reykjavík family zoo reports, “sooner than later the eagle will have recovered fully, allowing us to release her back into the wild.”
Interested visitors can say hi to the young eagle at the park which is open 10am – 5pm. In addition to the eagle the zoo houses Icelandic farm animals, reindeers, harbour seals and arctic foxes.
An injured young eagle which arrived at the Reykjavík Zoo at the end of January is recovering and greeting curious visitors. According to a post on the Facebook page of the Reykjavík family zoo the eagle has been moved into an outdoor enclosure which has housed several other birds of prey which have been nursed back to health at the zoo.
At the end of January travellers in the Berserkjahraun lava field, west of the town of Stykkishólmur town on the north coast of Snæfellsnes peninsula in West Iceland, spotted an eagle which had trouble flying. Initially it was feared the eagle had a broken wing, but after local farmers and the director of West Iceland Centre of Natural History captured the eagle and sent it to Reykjavík, where it was inspected by veterinarians, it was found to only have lost several of its flying feathers.
The young female eagle hatched in the summer of 2015, making it less than one year old. Had she not been found and moved to the Reykjavík family zoo she might not have made it through her first winter, but now she is set to soar in the skies next summer. She is making great progress, the Reykjavík family zoo reports, “sooner than later the eagle will have recovered fully, allowing us to release her back into the wild.”
Interested visitors can say hi to the young eagle at the park which is open 10am – 5pm. In addition to the eagle the zoo houses Icelandic farm animals, reindeers, harbour seals and arctic foxes.
