A pair of golden eagles that became trapped in goshawk traps at Denver International Airport were released in Summit County on Tuesday, May 30, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The two golden eagles were captured in nonlethal traps on an airfield, one on April 2 and the other on April 28, Tanya Espinosa, a spokesperson with the USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service said in an email. The raptors posed a possible hazard to air traffic.
Nate Hill, a community service officer with Summit County Sheriff’s Office, had a chance encounter in Frisco with the wildlife official who released the bird, according to a Facebook post by the Sheriff’s Office.
Hill witnessed the two birds of prey take off after the wildlife official opened the cages on the back of his truck at the Giberson Day Use Area in Frisco, the post states.
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