BARRINGTON — A juvenile barred owl is expected to make a full recovery after suffering potentially life-threatening injuries last week when it became punctured by a fish hook and caught in fishing line in Barrington.

“He’s healing nicely,” said Maria Colby, director of Wings of the Dawn Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Henniker.

New Hampshire Fish and Game transported the approximately 1- to 2-year-old owl from Barrington to Colby on May 29 after local resident Courtney Turner found it in distress and reported it.

Turner found the owl in a wooded section of Barrington with a fish hook in its right leg and fishing line wrapped around one of its wings, according to Colby.

Colby said it’s not uncommon for her to receive birds who have been snared by different types of lines and ropes. However, she said most cases “don’t end well” when the birds are caught in fishing line.

Once the owl’s wounds sufficiently heal, the owl will be released, Colby said.