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Connecticut DEEP Investigating After Illegal Shooting Of Red-Tailed Hawk Connecticut DEEP Investigating After Illegal Shooting Of Red-Tailed Hawk
Connecticut Deep Investigating After Illegal Shooting Of Red-Tailed Hawk The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is seeking the public’s assistance as they look to track down suspects who illegally shot and abused a red-tailed hawk. In December, DEEP officers were alerted to the bird, who was located in New Haven County after being impaled by an arrow in the area of Thorson Road and North Mark Drive in Oxford late in December. Further investigation found that the hawk also had BBs and an air rifle pellet embedded on its body. Officials said that the bird was successfully captured and is being treated by a licensed wildlife reha…

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