{"id":8146,"date":"2020-12-06T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2020-12-02T00:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:23:20","slug":"rough-legged-hawk-suffers-injury-and-lead-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/rough-legged-hawk-suffers-injury-and-lead-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough-Legged Hawk Suffers Injury And Lead Poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8149\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-pen-and-flying-202012-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"rough-legged hawk sitting in cage and flying free\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-pen-and-flying-202012-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-pen-and-flying-202012-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-pen-and-flying-202012.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8153\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-cage-202012-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"rough-legged hawk in cage\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-cage-202012-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-cage-202012-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/rough-legged-hawk-in-cage-202012.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This story was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmrp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rocky Mountain Raptor Program<\/a> in Colorado.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first day of the year brought the rehabilitation staff at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program an adult, rough-legged hawk in desperate need of assistance. It had been found by good Samaritans in Gill, Colorado. Not only had the hawk\u2019s feathers been lightly singed by a methane flare but, more critically, the hawk was underweight (800 grams; a little more than 1.5 pounds) and unable to stand or use its feet.<\/p>\n<p>The limited leg use was a red flag to rehabilitation staff who immediately tested the hawk\u2019s blood for lead. Sure enough, the hawk had an extremely high lead level at 1.2 ppm. Staff immediately started chelation treatment to remove the lead from the hawk\u2019s blood, but <a href=\"https:\/\/abcbirds.org\/program\/pesticides\/lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lead poisoning<\/a> has another insidious effect in raptors \u2014 it slows down and even prevents a raptor from digesting food.<\/p>\n<p>To combat the nutrition problem, rehabilitation staff tube-fed <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-carnivore\/\">EmerAid Intensive Care Carnivore<\/a> diet to overcome the effects of GI stasis. Treatment was incredibly slow, but with perseverance and time the hawk regained use of its legs and gained the weight it had lost.<\/p>\n<p>After a lengthy stay, the brave hawk gained 319 grams (about 11 ounces) and was released back to its wintering grounds, ready for its long migration back up to the Arctic at a much healthier weight of 1,119 grams (almost 2.5 pounds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underweight and unable to stand, a rough-legged hawk is found to have lead poisoning and gets treatment from the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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