UPI – A supposedly “injured” bald eagle rescued from a national park in Missouri was found to be merely “too fat to fly” after eating a bit too much raccoon.
The official Facebook page for Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield posted that Missouri Department of Conservation officers were summoned to the edge of the park to capture a bald eagle that was “originally reported to be injured”.
The post said the eagle “was found to be healthy but engorged with raccoon – in other words, too fat to fly”.
The Dickerson Park Zoo took X-rays of the eagle, which revealed a recent meal of what appeared to be a fairly large roadkill raccoon.
“The eagle has been rehabilitated and released back into the park,” the post said.
