Caretakers have named a red-tailed hawk “Hope” after it was badly injured in a collision with a car in Arapahoe County Tuesday.
“It’s not a bird we have a lot of hope for,” said Rachel Mansfield, assistant director of the Birds of Prey Foundation, which is trying to save the animal at its facility in Broomfield.
“Its injuries are pretty severe.”
An Arapahoe County Animal Control Officer Joe Walker collected the injured raptor at Nichols Avenue and Jordan Road in an unincorporated area of the county after a call from the public, and rushed it to the bird hospital.
Hope suffered a broken wing and a compound fracture of its leg, Mansfield said.
The Birds of Prey Foundation intensive-care center in Broomfield cares for injured raptors and releases them in the wild.
While the birds are not given to private homes, the foundation allows the public to “adopt” birds by supporting their care.
Suggested adoption fees are $35 for an American kestrel, $50 for screech owls, $65 for barn owls, $100 for great horned owls, $85 for a Cooper’s hawk, $250 for a red-tailed hawk, $250 for a Swainson’s hawk, $350 for a ferruginous hawk, $350 for a prairie falcon, $500 for a golden eagle and $500 for a bald eagle.
According to its website, the 30-year-old foundation cares for more than 500 injured or orphaned birds from across Colorado each year.
Anyone who would like to support Hope’s recovery or any other bird can visit the charity’s website at or call 303-460-0674.
