The picture shows a white-black vulture, named Abu, being rescued in the Netherlands. Abu lives at a private bird of prey breeding center. Strong winds swept him away and it took five days to find him.
Abu was being trained for a flying show when he was blown away. The center asked the public to look out for Abu. Many people phoned thinking that they had seen him, but most were mistaken.
He was finally found in a field 129km away from the center. A policeman and a member of the public called the center at the same time to say they had seen Abu.
Photo: EPA
"The policeman took a photo of him with his mobile phone and sent it to us and then we could see it was Abu,'' said a worker from the center.
They raced across the country to get the 1m tall bird. Meanwhile the policeman stopped people from getting too close and scaring off the bird. "Catching him was easy,'' said the worker from the center. "They had food and he saw that and walked straight up to them.''
(Catherine thomas, staff writer , with AP)
這張照片是在荷蘭獲救的一隻叫做「阿布」的黑白禿鷹。阿布住在一家私人的猛禽飼養中心。強風把牠吹走，歷時五天才被尋獲。
阿布被吹走時，正在接受一場飛行秀的訓練。這家中心請大眾協尋阿布。許多民眾紛紛來電說看見阿布，但大多是誤會一場。
阿布最後在距中心一百二十九公里的一處田野被人發現。一名警員與一位民眾同時致電這家中心，說自己看到了阿布。
中心的一位工作人員說︰「這名警員用手機拍了照傳給我們，我們知道這是阿布沒錯。」
他們穿越鄉間，想逮住這隻身高一米的禿鷹。那名警員阻止人們太過接近，以免嚇跑了禿鷹。「要逮住他易如反掌，」中心的工作人員說︰「他們準備好食物，禿鷹看到就直直衝了過來。」
（翻譯︰賴美君）
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