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ICYMI: Baby Owl Saved In Huntington Station By Officer, Preserve
Check out this story from earlier in the week on Huntington Patch.
HUNTINGTON STATION, NY — A baby great horned owl that fell out of its nest on Monday in Huntington Station was saved thanks to the quick thinking of a Suffolk police officer and volunteers from a nature preservation.
Officer Andrew Hooghuis of the second precinct responded to Nathan Place for a 911 call Monday morning after the owl fell from its nest.
"While the owl's mother watched from above, the officer took the young owl under his wings," the police department wrote in a Facebook post.
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The homeowner called Smithtown's Sweet Briar Nature Center to help the owl.
Janine Bendicksen, the volunteers' supervisor of wildlife rehabilitation, responded with another Sweet Briar Nature Center team member. Bendicksen rigged a makeshift nest out of a milk crate and attached large branches around the ends for zip ties and placed the nest as high in the tree as possible, she said.
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