Bald eagle dies after hunter mistakes it for goose

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Bald Eagle

Cory Morse | MLive.com

A bald eagle at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids on Friday, March 8, 2019. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)

UPDATE: 2 Michigan hunters confess to killing bald eagle in Manistee

MANISTEE, MI – A bald eagle was shot and later died after a waterfowl hunter mistook it for a goose over the weekend.

The 2-year-old eagle was in the care of Wings of Wonder in Empire when it had to be euthanized on Monday, Oct. 7, because of the severity of its injuries, said Wings of Wonder Executive Director Rebecca Lessard. Both its wings were fractured, and it had multiple gun pellet wounds.

The eagle was shot and checked in at Wings of Wonder on Saturday, Oct. 5.

“The hunter said the sun was in his eyes and thought it was a…

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5 thoughts on “Bald eagle dies after hunter mistakes it for goose

  1. Damn them the hunters so sick of the killing

    From: Exposing the Big Game Reply-To: Exposing the Big Game Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 4:20 PM To: louise kane Subject: [New post] Bald eagle dies after hunter mistakes it for goose

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  2. Even on my local news, the news reader quoted the ‘3 Billion Birds Lost Since the 70’s’ story as 3 million! There was no correction of it that I know of either.

    That shows how little importance these issues have, to the media and the general public.

    I yelled at the TV ‘it’s 3 billion dear, 3 billion!” and my husband said ‘they don’t know, they’re only reading a prompter’. 😦

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