Although investigators are not sure exactly how it was done, they think there is sufficient evidence to look into the possibility that a human killed the birds.
The notion that the 13 eagles died of a disease common to birds like avian influenza may have been initially plausible, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is far from convinced that this was the case. Instead, authorities will treat it as a crime, with them going as far to offer a reward for information about the perpetrator:
“‘Ruling out diseases such as avian influenza is important on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, which has many poultry farms and an abundance of migratory birds,’ Catherine Hibbard of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a press release Thursday. ‘Our investigation is now focused on human causes and bringing to justice the person(s) responsible for the death of these eagles.’
Authorities have raised the reward to $25,000 for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction in the case.”
Source: Rare
So Lois, you never ate meat or had scrambled eggs, fish sandwich?
There is a difference this bird stands for our country no need to kill them and there is a difference between killing for fun and trophy and food so Gene can you think of another dumb question
I hope when they find these phucks I would love to be there to help kick their$#%&!@*…
THIS WILL BE WAR !!! DON’T POKE THE BEAR, YOU ARE WARNED. PEOPLE WILL DO THE UNTHINKABLE OVER OUR BIRD.!!!
I say find out who did it and go give him a Beatdown of Their Own
Morals of illegal immigrants at work I would suppose
Isn’t it illegal to kill as bald eagle????
Such a sad problem who did it should be killed also.
No say it ain’t so, if you got 13 deal bald Eagles in one area hmmm m8gjt you have a human killer. Eagles don’t natural die in units of ten. Your a special kind of stupid aren’t you, and you call yourselves investigaters. Good luck with that, mabe we need trained investigators to investigate the incident. You deffintly require investigating training