Hawk flies into car, lands in driver

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A red-tailed hawk that flew into a car traveling on a highway in Connecticut?landing on the driver's lap?has been released back into the wild.

Dan Caitlin was driving along the Merritt Parkway in Trumbull, Conn., last week when the hawk flew into the windshield of his car, bounced off the side window and fell into his lap, animal control officials told the Fairfield Citizen:

Caitlin drove for a short distance with the stunned hawk in his lap, before pulling over and putting the raptor into the passenger seat. When he got home, he called the animal control staff, which picked up the injured hawk and kept it overnight before bringing it to a local veterinarian.

Fairfield Animal Control officer Paul Miller told Yahoo News that the injured bird was transferred to a local veterinarian, treated and released several days later.

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