{"id":48732,"date":"2019-05-29T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/raven-with-dart-in-head-euthanized\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:30:00","slug":"raven-with-dart-in-head-euthanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/raven-with-dart-in-head-euthanized\/","title":{"rendered":"Raven with dart in head euthanized"},"content":{"rendered":"

The raven who was flying around downtown with a blow dart lodged in its head<\/a> was euthanized Tuesday night, Kathy Benner from the Juneau Raptor Center said.<\/p>\n

Benner, the manager of the JRC, said in an email Wednesday that someone trapped the raven in a gated area at the Glory Hall homeless shelter at about 1 p.m. Tuesday. JRC personnel were called to the scene and were able to catch the bird — which had been eluding them since early April. <\/p>\n

“The bird squeezed under a gate in front of a doorway,” Benner said in the email, “and then they put cardboard there to block him from getting back out until we arrived.”<\/p>\n

They examined the raven and found that the blow dart — which had entered near the bird’s eye and was sticking through the other side of its head — had “severely damaged” the bird’s sinus cavity, Benner said. The raven was taken to a veterinarian and was humanely euthanized, Benner said.<\/p>\n

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Prior to that, nobody had been able to catch the raven as it flew around downtown. Benner said in a recent interview that the bird appeared to be eating normally, and was flying well enough to evade would-be captors.<\/p>\n

Shooting a raven or other migratory bird is illegal due to the Migratory Bird Act, but in a recent interview, Juneau Animal Control Officer Karen Wood said it’s difficult to track down people who shoot blow darts or pellet guns at animals.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Contact reporter Alex McCarthy at amccarthy@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @akmccarthy.<\/b><\/p>\n

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