Good News Today · 28 May 2026 · 3 min

Good News Today — Concrete to Open Sky: The Owl Rescue That Rewrote Wildlife Rehab

A great horned owl trapped in hardened concrete for seven months is flying free after a centuries-old falconry technique was used in a first-of-its-kind wildlife rescue. Today's uplifting news story proves that small leaps of applied thinking can redefine what animal rehabilitation looks like.

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Good News Today — Concrete to Open Sky: The Owl Rescue That Rewrote Wildlife Rehab

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A great horned owl that spent seven months trapped in hardened concrete is flying free again, thanks to a surgical technique that's never been used quite like this before. The bird was found in Utah, its feathers destroyed by the concrete that had encased it.

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