BROOKS, W.Va. (AP) — A year-old golden eagle caught in a Monroe County coyote trap last November has been nursed back to health and will spend the next few years helping scientists learn more about its species’ migration patterns.

“Luckily, only one of his toes was caught in the trap,” said Wendy Perrone, director of the Three Rivers Avian Center, who traveled to a field near Salt Sulphur Springs on Nov. 14 to free the bird of prey. Once back at TRAC’s Summers County raptor rehabilitation facility, the young male eagle’s toe was splinted, he was put on a diet of rats, and he was treated for an infestation of lice picked up during his travels.