Jurong Bird Park vets with the injured changeable hawk-eagle.
The park attraction said in a media release on Wednesday that the changeable hawk-eagle - which is named as the species is known to come in two colour forms - was reported injured by a member of the public on 7 January. The native raptor was unable to fly due to burnt feathers in both its wings and tail.
Jurong Bird Park vets using the"imping" technique to affix new feathers on the injured changeable hawk-eagle. As such, the vet team decided to use a technique called "imping" on the eagle's wings and feathers to speed up the bird's release back into the wild. The painstaking process involved replacing 50 feathers on the bird's wings and tail using bamboo sticks as "imping needles" to affix the new feathers.
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