FILE - In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017 file photo, Jane Kelly, owner of On the Wing, in Epping, N.H., holds a barred owl that is recovering there after being hit by a truck and becoming lodged between the cab and the cargo hold of a truck traveling from Massachusetts to New Hampshire earlier in the month. Kelly, who helped care for the owl over the last six months, said the raptor, named "Trucker," was released Saturday, Sept. 29, 2017, in Wilmington, Mass., where the mishap originally occurred. (AP Photo/Michael Casey)
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017 file photo, Jane Kelly, owner of On the Wing, in Epping, N.H., holds a barred owl that is recovering there after being hit by a truck and becoming lodged between the cab and the cargo hold of a truck traveling from Massachusetts to New Hampshire earlier in the month. Kelly, who helped care for the owl over the last six months, said the raptor, named "Trucker," was released Saturday, Sept. 29, 2017, in Wilmington, Mass., where the mishap originally occurred. (AP Photo/Michael Casey) Credit: Michael Casey

Grantham — A barred owl that was struck by motorists in Grantham and brought to the emergency veterinary clinic in Lebanon is ready to be released into the wild, but there is a problem: The people who helped rehabilitate the bird aren’t sure where it should be released.

“The owl’s prognosis is good and it will be released in Grantham in the near future. Returning it to the vicinity of the accident would be ideal, but we don’t know where the owl was hit,” Sheridan Brown, chairman of the Grantham Board of Selectmen, said in a news release.

Because of this, Selectboard is hoping to contact the couple who hit the owl, purely to find out where the accident occurred. The young bird was likely just establishing a territory, and returning it to that territory will increase the bird’s chances of survival and the odds that it will nest in the area.

Anyone who knows where the owl was hit is asked to call Brown at 603-289-3348.

Brown emphasized that the couple who hit the bird did everything right and saved its life by taking it to the vet. Now, he asks them to help the bird one more time.

“This is not an attempt to collect any costs or impose any other liability — we just need a location for the bird’s release,” he said.