You lunge toward the bird, but as soon as you touch it you begin to feel very strange.
You feel an itching on your chest and look down to see what it is. This is when you notice that you are growing white featers on your chest.
Your shoes begin to feel tight. You think this is strange, because you just bought them and they were one size too large. The pain increases, so you take your shoes off. As soon as you do, your socks rip open from the pressure and you see that you now have four toes on each foot, three in front and one in back of the foot. Each toe has a sharp black talon instead of a toenail, and your feet are growing yellow scales.
The back of your pants bulge out as you grow several tail feathers. Your arms and hands itch and your see your fingers begin to become longer and thinner. Your nose and mouth meld and become as hard as your teeth, which are now melding into the solid mass. The mass turns yellow and has a black tip, just like a hawks beak. Your arms have grown longer and your hand no longer exist, being made completely of brown feathers.
You then look around and feel your hair fall out, being replaced by feathers. Your vision is much keener, and you can see much better than you ever have before. You surroundings seem to be getting bigger, and you realize you are shrinking. Your clothes fall off and realize that you have stopped shrinking.
You look at yourself and realize that you are now completely a red-tailed hawk. You then notice the dead mouse that you dropped when you began transforming. You begin to get very hungry. You flutter over to it, tear it apart with your hooded beak and talons, and gulp it down.
Then the zookeeper appears and throws a net over you, you try to escape but realize that you are too weak and that without hands, you couldn't hope to get it off of you anyways.
The zookeeper picks you up and carries you down the path. As he does, he speaks to another staff member and tells him to announce that they found the hawk. He also talks about how this hawk should bee able to replace the one that died an hour ago.
When the zookeeper stops walking, he opens the net partway so that you can get out of it. You strut out of the opening and hear the slam of a cage door. You then realize that you have been put in the red-tailed hawk habitat.
The days pass, and you discover how much fun flying is. Everyday you are brought out for the bird show. The first time they tried to get you to come and perform at the show, they had to threaten you with no food for two days. You came out, remembering how fast the metabolism of your hawk body is. You begin to feel hopeless and you think that you will never escape or return to your real form. Then, one day, the staff member who just fed you your lunch (mouse again, just like every other meal since you transformed) accidently left the door open.