injured wild bird help

to save his life and get him to fly again. the eagle was in bad shape from day one. >> severely broken wing, emaciated, dehydrated. reporter: this x-ray image shows the fracture in it's right

wing. >> we don't typically see a lot of injuries that bad where the animal survives. reporter: experts believe the bird tphrepbld an f le dges and fell on one of its first

flights. at first energy experts thought it was a vulture. >> they looked and observed the beak and the head and they realized this is a baby bald eagle. reporter:

surgery followed and months of rehab. >> it was definitely touch and go. reporter: and that brings us to today. in a field back in beaver county anxious moments for an eagle

ready for flight. >> it is our hope that this particular eagle goes onto prosper and adds to the lineage of over 300 active bald eagle nests that we have here in pennsylvania right now.

reporter: and here he is, hooded at first, the crew probably more nervous than he. >> he's not going to be picture-perfect but that's tolerable, that is acceptable for a bald eagle. reporter: and finally, after

all these months the release. the flight short at first landing in a field and then a nearby tree, then it was downstream and out of sight. >> he has every faculty that he needs to survive here in the

wild, so that is a really, really good thing. andrew: a beautiful ending. today's release got a thumb's up from everyone involved here.