It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a sheep dangling from a helicopter!

This sheep and about 15 others moved off an island in Utah’s Great Salt Lake on Friday. The small, 15-mile island doesn’t have enough space for too many bighorn sheep. So once in a while, State Park officials round some up and take them to new homes.

Bighorn sheep are famous for their ability to walk up steep mountainsides. They once lived all over western parts of North America. By the 1920s, they had disappeared from many U.S. states and parts of Mexico. Since then, people have moved them from place to place to spread healthy populations around.

Workers captured the sheep on the island. After flying through the air in slings, the sheep landed at a ranch. They got vaccines and health checks. Then they made their way to their new homes in the central Utah mountains. But this time they rode on trailers, not through the sky!

(AP Photo: A sheep travels through the air to a ranch on Antelope Island, Utah.)