Metro Transit Police working with the Raptor Conservancy of Virginia successfully rescued an injured American bald eagle Saturday afternoon near the Blue Lines’s Van Dorn Street Station.
The eagle, a national symbol and a protected species, was located inside the track fence about 300 yards from the station near the 5300 block of Eisenhower Avenue. Police and animal rescue personnel boarded an out-of-service Metro train to access the area, causing some delays as Blue Line trains had to single-track around them.
Officials captured the eagle, which appeared to have sustained a broken wing, and transported it to a RCV facility in Falls Church to receive care.
-Steve Contorno
