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Aired (September 17, 2023):  Doc Neil Donato visits an injured Philippine serpent eagle that was hit by a truck in Laguna. What injuries did the serpent eagle sustain? Watch this video.

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00:00 Not only people are being disgraced on the side of the roads and streets

00:04 But also the wildlife

00:12 They are being thrown out of their homes in the jungle

00:17 And become victims of roadside accidents

00:22 [Music]

00:30 In the sound of a tree in Montalban, Rizal

00:33 A bird that is known to be weak and only found in the Philippines is resting

00:40 This is a Philippine Serpent Eagle

00:47 It has been resting in this house for two days after it crashed into a truck on August 24

00:53 The one who rescued it was Carl Gadores

01:00 Who even hired a bird in Laguna to tame it

01:03 We are here in Montalban, Rizal

01:08 Because there is a bird that crashed into a truck

01:11 This is a bit unusual

01:14 So that the bird can check up on the accident and damage it did to its body

01:20 Good morning!

01:24 Are you the one who rescued the bird or the one who tamed it?

01:29 I was the one who rescued it

01:31 Where is the bird now?

01:33 It's up there

01:35 Oh, you put it up there

01:38 Okay, so the markings on the bird's body

01:42 There are white marks, this is a Serpent Eagle

01:46 Wait, how did this bird end up in your house?

01:50 On Friday morning, my cousin called me

01:54 And told me that they found a bird that crashed into a truck

01:58 They thought that someone threw something at their truck

02:04 They saw the bird and it was unable to fly

02:08 They took it

02:10 It's on the road

02:12 Where is this place?

02:14 In Barangay Laurel, Santa Maria, Laguna

02:16 From Rizal, Carl hired a bird tamer to save the bird

02:22 I feel sorry for the bird, I want it back in the wild

02:26 When he got it, he noticed that even if the bird wanted to fly

02:32 It's wings were not able to open

02:34 To check the condition of the Serpent Eagle

02:38 We will bring it to a nearby veterinary clinic to get a radiograph

02:43 When you made the enclosure, you put it far away from the bird

02:53 Then you put it here

02:55 We'll try to grab it and then we'll just transfer it to another enclosure

03:00 That's not your way

03:01 Even though penguins and other uneater are very friendly to humans

03:14 They are often the victims of road accidents

03:16 Sometimes they just go out and get hit by unsafe roads

03:27 Born to be wild, please help me to give this wildlife a proper place

03:33 Because it will be destroyed

03:35 In this video, Benji Baltero caught a penguin in Quezon, Palawan

03:40 He called for help to rescue the penguin he caught

03:45 Benji's story, he was riding his motorcycle on August 9

03:50 On a sunny day, a penguin suddenly collided with a car

03:55 Then it rolled

03:57 When he got off the motorcycle, he saw a critically endangered penguin

04:03 He immediately brought it to his house so that no one else could get it

04:08 After a day, the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development responded to the penguin

04:16 And they immediately released it back to the wild

04:22 When Benji's rescued penguin returned to his natural habitat

04:26 Karl's rescued bird was on the side of the road

04:30 The road to the enclosure is still long

04:34 We'll do a radiograph to see if there's a problem

04:38 And what management we can do for it

04:42 Before we could leave the DNR at Karl's house

04:46 One of his neighbors approached

04:50 He also found wildlife on the side of the road last night

04:54 This is the house of the bird we got

04:58 We'll transfer it to the rescue center

05:01 They also saw a reticulated python

05:05 Where did you get it?

05:07 When did you get it?

05:09 Last night

05:11 It was still small, maybe 2 months old

05:16 And very feisty

05:19 Let's take a look at it

05:21 It looks like a spine

05:23 It's inside

05:26 Look at this

05:29 It's different

05:31 If it's injured, I would think it was shot

05:34 The airguns, but there's no point of entry

05:37 When we got to the clinic, we examined the serpent eagle first

05:43 It's so kind, it doesn't seem to be missing

05:48 It's not here

05:49 Let's bring it there

05:52 It doesn't look like it

05:57 Let's do an X-ray

05:59 It's a neck fracture

06:04 When the serpent eagle's radiograph came out

06:15 I saw a bullet that pierced the whole neck of the bird

06:18 In the wild, the serpent eagle uses its strong neck

06:23 To catch prey like snakes

06:26 But in the condition of this eagle

06:29 It's hard to do it

06:32 The python that was rescued in the same community

06:36 It's healthy and has no wound

06:39 No bullet, no foreign body

06:43 The python is fit for release

06:45 But the serpent eagle needs to be turned over

06:49 To the Biodiversity Management Bureau for rehabilitation

06:52 With the DNR in Rizal

07:00 The python was able to return to its natural habitat

07:04 We'll just release this

07:06 This area is also where the wild divers release their DNR

07:12 It's fit for release

07:14 Just like our snake today

07:18 It's not new for humans to have their own lives

07:32 But they have good signs like Carl, Benji and Joe Boy

07:39 By continuously reminding people

07:43 That our animals should stay in the wild

07:47 We can change our way of wildlife

07:52 [Music]

08:14 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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