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Bald Eagle Jackie Leaves Intensive Care at Ojai Raptor Center as Transfusion Boosts Recovery

Jackie, a 14-year-old bald eagle known from the Big Bear Valley Eagle Nest Cam, leaves intensive care at the Ojai Raptor Center after receiving a life-saving blood transfusion and is moved to a regular hospital ward under close supervision.Rescuers found Jackie near Big Bear Lake underweight and disheveled after an altercation with two subadult eagles; veterinarians report severe anemia, kidney inflammation and early gains in red blood cell counts while testing continues for rodenticide and zinc toxicity.The nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley says staff will release Jackie back to the wild only when clinicians determine she can hunt and survive independently, and notes Shadow and the eaglets Sandy and Luna have not been seen recently.
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