Hawk rescued after landing on woman, staying perched on her hand in Chicago suburbs
ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (CBS) -- A red-tailed hawk landed right on a woman in Round Lake Beach this week.
Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation said on Tuesday, the juvenile hawk swooped down and landed on the woman in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter in Round Lake Beach, at 2680 N. Route 83.
The nonprofit said a woman put out her hand and the hawk stepped up onto her hand as if she were a falconer.
The hawk remained perched on the woman's hand until Round Lake Beach police came. Round Lake Beach police Sgt. "Friendly" Lupi got the hawk into his hand and brought it to the police station, the nonprofit said.
Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation picked up the hawk from the police station. The nonprofit described the hawk as "filthy," but in good health.
The organization believes someone may have raised the hawk illegally in captivity.
Also on Christmas Eve, Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation also rescued an opossum that got hit by a car in Woodstock, and a Cooper's hawk that may have hit a window in Morris.
