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]