By Scott Sonner, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RENO, Nev. - The eagle has landed - with a thud - after crashing through the windshield of a tractor-trailer on a Nevada highway.
State wildlife officials say the seven-kilogram golden eagle crashed into a Florida truck driver's big rig on Monday.
They say the eagle - which has a two-metre wing span - has a swollen head but otherwise appears unhurt.
Matthew Roberto Gonzalez of Opa Locka, Fla., was driving on U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada near Wells, about 100 kilometres west of the Utah line, when the eagle came crashing into the cab of his truck.
Gonzalez and a passenger were unhurt.
The eagle is recovering at the Northeast Nevada Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Spring Creek.
"It looks like she hit it head first. One side of the head is swollen, but there does not appear to be any permanent damage," said Joe Doucette, a spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
"The guys in the truck immediately bailed out because it was one ticked off bird. She was pretty feisty," Doucette told The Associated Press. "Even the officer who responded didn't want to go in there so we had one of our wildlife biologists do it."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/03/04/8631011-ap.html
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