![]() ![]() I just refuse to accept that right now, but we will make whatever decision is best for the bird, and that is the only decision we will make," she said. "I just can't accept that he came here to die. She is in charge of rehabbing and taking care of Clay, but all decisions about birds in captivity are done through the Federal Department of Interior Wildlife Services, King explained. She said saving Clay is personal, and she's going to do everything she can to help him. "I'm pushing the envelope with dedication and just sheer will, this bird is special to me he's named for a good friend, a good man." King said if they can't save the foot, they could lose Clay. He's got a 50/50 shot right now saving that foot." I know enough to know this could go either way. He has several infections and a badly hurt foot, Kind said. She said it looks like Clay was in a fight with another Eagle and he's in bad shape. "I held up the eagle hood and he stuck his head in it, I held up a bowl of water, and he drank from it, a wild animal doesn't know what a bowl is," she said. She said she immediately thought it was Clay. Then just this week she got a call that there was an eagle found in the same creek in Nowata. King said the ranch worked to fix Clay's broken wing and he was able to be released. ![]() "He was one of the eagles that flew over the game warden's land that he would tell me about, two days after he passes, one of them comes to me," said Director Annette King. The eagle was first rescued by the Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue in April when he was first rescued from a creek in Nowata. ![]() The ranch named the bald eagle Clay, after a game warden who passed away. The Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue said it's doing everything it can to save a hurt bald eagle. ![]()
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