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‘Talon-ted’ Vets: Medics Save Eagle Mutilated by Traffickers – The Wilmington Journal

SAN CLEMENTE DEL TUYU, Argentina-After two years of rehabilitation, a black-chested buzzard-eagle that was found nearly dead in Argentina is back in the wild. The type of wounds the female bird suffered meant she was [...]

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