Marbella firefighters they have rescued a specimen of eagle owl that he had been trapped more than ten meters high, in the protection net of a golf course located in San Pedro Alcántara, near the A-397 road.
The agents received the notice of the presence of the animal, that it could not take the flight, and they traveled to the place provided with a autoscale vehicle to be able to proceed to capture the specimen, of great dimensions and without visible injuries, have informed from the City council in a communiqué.
Self-scale vehicle used during the rescue.
Self-scale vehicle used during the rescue.
After the bird’s recovery intervention, which lasted more than half an hour, it was made available to the Agents of the Board’s Environment delegation Andalusia in order to proceed to the assessment of its status and return to its natural habitat.
So far this year, the Marbella Firefighters have attended fifty animal saves, among which are dogs, cats and snakes, as well as in interventions with swarms of bees or wasps. Among them, the rescue of a mare stands out, after falling into a ditch of the Guadalmina river, or that of a griffon vulture that had taken refuge injured on the landing of an urbanization in Nueva Andalucía.