11.   Recovery team coordinators long have planned to eventually release the birds in more remote areas such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, or in New Mexico.

12.   Some celebrants also release caged birds and perform charitable acts, such as distributing cash to the underprivileged or visiting orphanages.

13.   So on Tuesday its rescuers and some onlookers gathered at a parking lot near the Smithville Lake dam to release the bird.

14.   The birds are released several months before the hunting season begins to give them the strength and agility of wild birds.

15.   The bird has been released.

16.   The rescue group decided not to try releasing birds bred in captivity because they were unlikely to survive in the wild.

17.   Then the birds are released.

18.   When Sears released the birds, they fluttered once around the stadium, then disappeared beyond the rim, headed north toward home.

19.   At the very least, he should have released the bird once it learnt to fly.

20.   Even as the young birds were released, a captive breeding female was found dead, the Department of Conservation said.