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Volunteers Janice Constable and Steve Masten, part of the University of Minnesota Raptor Center's ''Flight Crew,'' work to help rehabilitate eagles so they can be  released back into the wild. 

On Nov. 4, they took a juvenile bald eagle for a workout at Como Regional Park in St. Paul. It was the eagle's second test flight since it arrived with a fractured breastbone in June. They hope it will be ready in a little more than a month to join adult bald eagles that have migrated to open water in the Mississippi River near Wabasha. 

Constable and Masten between them have more than 24 years of experience working with bald eagles. They bring the young birds out for flights one to four times a week, depending on the bird's strength and flying ability.

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Volunteers took a juvenile bald eagle out to Como Park for a workout, part of the effort to get it ready to be released into the wild.

Volunteers bring a juvenile eagle out for a flight

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Janice Constable releases a juvenile bald eagle.

Juvenile bald eagle takes off on exercise flight.

Steve Masten picks up an eagle after a test flight

Steve Masten holds the feet of a juvenile eagle.

A juvenile bald eagle waits to takes flight.

Janice Constable watches a juvenile bald eagle.

Steve Masten controls a line attached to an eagle.

Photos: Juvenile bald eagle preps to fly free after rehab

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