Bald Eagle Poisoning

The article reeks of BS. Anyone able to provide a rebuttal with proof?

From a website called dodo, there is the problem.

The population is booming right now. It's at the highest I've ever seen it. I worked for the US Fish and Wildlife service 15 years ago and we thought it was high then.There appear to be more now. They nest all over the place here in NE Iowa and on the Mississippi river. The amount of deaths is not proportional to the population. The number of birds has gone up much faster and higher than the number of poisonings.

  I'm sure there are numbers out there in possession of the .Gov that show this. It makes for good Donation inducing PR though to show  a bunch of dead birds. All of those dead birds are kept by the USFWS and allocated out to Native groups for Ceremonial purposes only. Sad, cause I'd love to have one Taxidermy mounted in flight with a small Poodle in it's Talons.

I did not read the article you cited - but member 'church' here had a couple pretty good threads on his hunting with a redtail hawk for the past couple of seasons.  Somewhere in the thread he discussed raptors in general and their susceptibility to lead poisoning.   Apparently it doesn't take much lead ingested to kill a raptor, I suppose their gizzards  grind it up fine enough to be absorbed into the blood stream.

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I have no scientific proof, but where I live there are Bald Eagles EVERYWHERE.  They sit on the side of the road eating road kill all the time.  Most of the time they don't even move as you pass them.  Here in MN they are living fine.

There are over 200 bald eagles currently hanging out in or around sand lake national wildlife refuge in northern SD.  Population is doing fine.