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As the avian flu rips through the United States, birds across the country are contracting the fatal disease, including bald eagles.
At least three bald eagles who contracted bird flu are dead, Georgia's Department of Natural Resources said Thursday. The highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in more than 25 states, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.
building the wind farms in New Mexico and Wyoming that they would kill birds, but it proceeded anyway and at times ignored advice from federal wildlife officials about how to minimize the deaths, according to court documents.
"For more than a decade, ESI has violated (wildlife) laws, taking eagles without obtaining or even seeking the necessary permit," said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division in a statement.
ESI agreed under a plea agreement to spend up to $27 million during its five-year probationary period on measures to prevent future eagle deaths. That includes shutting down turbines at times when eagles are more likely to be present.
EENAH – City workers stumbled upon a fishy situation last weekend in the parking lot across from City Hall.
A building inspector noticed significant damage to the hood of one of the cars Monday and contacted the police and insurance agents, according to the Neenah Community Development Department.
Police and the inspector found a dead carp several feet away and determined the damage was caused by an eagle or other large bird that dropped the fish.
“The police said there’s no way someone could have hit (the car) with the fish hard enough to do that kind of damage,” said Neenah office manager Samantha Jefferson. “It had to have come from way far up — it’s crazy.”
Nature and mankind clashed as a bald eagle waged an attack on an EGLE drone 162 feet above the waters of Lake Michigan.
NatureοΏ½won the battle, andοΏ½the drone now rests on the bottom of the lake.
The skirmish took place last month. The pilot of the ill-fated drone was Hunter King of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE). On the day of the EGLE drone’s swan song, King was mapping shoreline erosion.οΏ½He had completed seven minutes of the flight when he began having reception problems. King pressed the button to recall the drone