A tiny eagle suffered a navigation failure during on a late-night adventure and flew straight into a window, leaving her concussed and with a bruised shoulder joint.
Crash, a two-year-old Little Eagle, was in full flight near Bendigo, Australia when she failed to spot the plane of glass in front of her.
Crash is now recovering at the nearby Statewide Wildlife Rescue Emergency Service where staff gave her the appropriate nickname.
Silly bird: Baby eagle Crash went head first into a window and is now recovering at a wildlife rescue clinic
Staff believe the 815 gram predator may have been chasing another bird or a rabbit and become distracted.
Neil Morgan, president of the Statewide Wildlife Rescue Emergency Service, said it was ‘very unusual’ for a Little Eagle, a very small eagle native to Australasia, to fly in the dark.
‘She crashed into the window at 10pm, and eagles just aren’t about at that time,’ he told the Weekly Times.
Small chick, big window: Crash was experimenting with some nighttime flight-related mischief when she miscalculated her route – and flew straight into the glass
Although she likes flying in the dark, she does not seem to have a problem with the limelight, as she pulled some cheeky poses for a photographer who came to visit the rescue centre near Melbourne.
Anything but eagle-eyed: The high-flyer will stay bandaged up at the rescue clinic in Bendigo, Melbourne in Australia for three weeks before she is taken to rehabilitation