WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
I found the mature bald eagle spread on the river bank a couple months after the end of deer season on our property in West Virginia. There was no obvious trauma on its limp body.
I called the state wildlife agency to report the find and was shocked when the game warden said he was pretty sure he knew how the raptor had died.
The eagle, he said, likely had fed on a deer carcass or gut pile from deer season and had died from lead poisoning from ingesting shards of lead splintered from a bullet when it hit the deer.
It was a slow, awful death.
“We’re seeing more and more of this,” he told me.
I wondered at the time if he really knew what he was talking about.
Now…
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