Wonder was found freezing and starving in a field in Michigan, due to visual impairment and his inability to thermoregulate because of a pigment disorder. He suffered from frostbite and lost two digits as a result.

Handsome was found as a nestling and was illegally held by a member of the public before being turned over to the Ojai Raptor Center. By the time he arrived he was already malprinted, or too habituated to humans to be released to the wild.