After a two-month stay at TRC, a red-tailed hawk was released back to the wild on January 10. The bird arrived at our raptor hospital on Nov. 11, 2024 with internal trauma and a previously injured toe, or digit, as we call them. The toe was missing its talon, and although the injury was old, the tip of the toe’s bone was infected and painful. Dr. Kaylee, TRC’s veterinary intern, came to the hawk’s rescue! She took the hawk to surgery, removed the small piece of infected bone, and closed the skin