- A New Zealand police officer took a ride-along with an injured owl.
- They decided to release the owl back into the wild at Waiotahe Beach instead of euthanizing it.
A couple of New Zealand police officers had a ride-along with a small owl they discovered wandering the roadway.
According to an Instagram post by the Bay of Plenty Police, Senior Constables Marty Madsen and Willy Searle were working a late shift in Opotiki when they initially mistook a roadside animal for a hedgehog.
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The officers examined the animal more closely and determined that it was an owl that “had been hit by a car.”
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“I put him in the car and shot back into town, as Marty is a bit of a bird whisperer,” Searle explained. “By the time I got back to town, he started to warm up and flap around a bit.”
The officers chose to release the owl back into the wild at Waiotahe Beach.
Searle described the meeting as “a bit of a privilege, really.”
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