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Vallieres coaxes a red-tailed hawk at New Hampshire Audubon into doing a "step-up," an essential training technique for handling the rehabilitated bird, on October 29, 2013. "It's amazing how it's healed me," said Vallieres, who first fell in love with birds of prey on a bird watching tour in New Hampshire's White Mountains about 16 years ago, after being deemed medically unfit for duty and honorably discharged from the Army.
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Vallieres coaxes a red-tailed hawk at New Hampshire Audubon into doing a "step-up," an essential training technique for handling the rehabilitated bird, on October 29, 2013. "It's amazing how it's healed me," said Vallieres, who first fell in love with birds of prey on a bird watching tour in New Hampshire's White Mountains about 16 years ago, after being deemed medically unfit for duty and honorably discharged from the Army.