COLLEGE POINT — Police rescued a baby peregrine falcon Thursday night that crash landed near the new Police Academy, according to a Long Island wildlife rehabilitator.
The 2 1/2-month old falcon, which rehabber Bobby Horvath believes came from a nest under the Van Wyck Expressway, doesn’t know how to fly well just yet.
“They leave the nest not 100 percent flighted sometimes,” Horvath said. “That’s common, but this guy crashed into something.”
The chick crashed near the NYPD Police Academy in College Point where an officer scooped it up, Horvath said. The falcon was injured and had some blood in his mouth.
Horvath, who runs Wildlife In Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation with his wife, Cathy, plans to rehabilitate the chick and try to reunite him with his family.
