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For 100 days, Salt Lake Country Club had a new member: An escaped Harris’s hawk

By KUER · October 16, 2026 · 1 min read
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For 100 days, Salt Lake Country Club had a new member: An escaped Harris’s hawk
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Stax, a 14-year-old Harris’s hawk, escaped HawkWatch International on June 29. For much of the time since, he set up shop at a Salt Lake golf course while HawkWatch staff tried to recapture him.

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