bird day

Fitting for this year’s theme, “Collisions: Clear the Way for Birds!”, Senator Chafee released a rehabilitated Red-tailed hawk who had suffered a wing injury from colliding with a car. To the delight and cheers of the on-lookers, the hawk flew from the Senator’s hands over a grassland to perch in a nearby tree. The hawk was brought back to health by raptor rehabilitator Vivian Maxson of Born to Be Wild Nature Center in Bardford, Rhode Island.