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Elachee Nature Science Center takes in bird blinded in left eye
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A new red-tailed hawk the Elachee Nature Center recently acquired sits on a perch in its cage Wednesday at the nature center in Gainesville. Having the hawk allows Elachee Nature Center to teach others about the bird firsthand. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Elachee Nature Science Center’s newest tenant has had a rough start to the new year. “She was involved in an accident on Ga. 400,” Elachee’s education director, Peter Gordon, said of the red-tailed hawk recently brought to Elachee’s campus. “The vets concluded she was indeed blinded in her left eye, which deems her nonreleasable.”