WAYNESBORO (AP) -- An adult eagle and a baby bobcat that can't be released into the wild are getting a new home.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia will transfer the pair to the Maymont Nature Park in Richmond on Wednesday.

The eagle will be housed at Maymont's new bald eagle exhibit, which is set to open Sept. 13. One of the eagle's wings was amputated after the injured bird was found in December near a roadside garbage collection site in King and Queen County.

The eagle has no wing or flight feathers beyond the wrist, so it cannot be returned to the wild. 

The bobcat can't be released because it lived with humans for three weeks before it was brought the center in June. The wildlife center says a Bath County couple who found the bobcat along a road in May initially thought it was a domestic kitten and kept it in their home.  

Wildlife Center of Virginia

The bobcat kitten at play at the Wildlife Center of Virginia

He was fed Friskies and cow’s milk.

During his time at the Center, the Bobcat has grown from an admission weight of 760 gms [about 1.7 pounds] to his current weight of 2.62 kgs [about 5.8 pounds].  He was progressed from an initial diet of a milk-substitute formula to meals of rats, mice, fish, and quail.   

The eagle being released Wednesday lives in the enclosure right next door to the male eaglet taken from Norfolk Botanical Garden.

“Once 07-2292 leaves, someone will probably move in next door to Norfolk eagle,” Randy Huwa, the center’s executive vice presiden, told WVEC.com.

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