There was the great horned owl with a hematoma running the length of its left wing the red-tailed hawk’s body cavity glistening with unclotted blood sundry raptors with pools of blood under dissected skin the redtail with a hematoma that had ballooned its left eye to 10 times normal size and, “saddest of all,” the redtail with an egg. Like her colleagues here and at similar clinics around the country, Murray is a wildlife advocate as well as a scientist.Įach image was, in her word and my perception, “sadder” than the last. But I was watching her eyes as well as her computer screen, and they revealed anguish. Clinical assistant professor Maureen Murray of the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in central Massachusetts was doing a good job of keeping her emotions under wraps as she clicked through photos of her recent necropsies.
