Hit by a southbound semi on I-15 near Jefferson City Saturday, an adult female red-tailed hawk is recuperating in Bozeman partly thanks to the efforts of two Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies.
After a motorist reported seeing a truck collide with the hawk, Deputy Susan Butz was dispatched to the scene for what she would later explain by email was her first raptor rescue.
After arriving and meeting with the driver that called it in, Butz took the battered but alive buteo and contacted the Montana Raptor Conservation Center in Bozeman, which agreed to take the hawk.
