Removing the bird safely required cutting off the front bumper, destroying an $1,100 part that will have to be replaced, he said.

“It was quite a large specimen,” Budjnoski said. “It’s hard to believe that it was alive.”

The bird appeared to have entered at the bottom of the front bumper, breaking a stanchion and cracking the bumper cover as it entered, he said.

Removing the bird safely required cutting off the front bumper, destroying an $1,100 part that will have to be replaced, he said.

“We’re not worried about that,” Budjnoski said. “We’re glad to do our civic, civil responsibility and we never once thought about killing it and just pulling it out of there.”

The bird made it out “still very alive but shocked,” according to a post on the company’s Facebook page. The staff covered the hawk’s head with a towel to calm it and put it in a box to bring it to the Pennsylvania Game Commission in Dallas.

An examination there determined the bird had a broken left wing but no internal injuries, the post says.

Wildlife Conservation Officer Supervisor Peter Sussenbach said the Pennsylvania Game Commission had received the bird and transported it to the Delaware Valley Raptor Center in Milford.

Jan Lucciola with the raptor center said the bird was on its way Tuesday afternoon and that she intended to examine it later in the day.

[This article was written by James Halpin and appeared in the Citizens’ Voice.]