Posted on 01/14/2022 2:46:39 PM PST by LibertyWoman
A new study finds bald eagle population is dropping due to them contracting lead poisoning
The birds eat organs left behind by hunters, which contain gunshot ammunition
Experts say other animals are feasting on the remains and are being poisoned
Bald eagles may have recovered from near extinction, but the birds are now at risk of another threat - lead poisoning.
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Only time I ever saw lead weights inside a fish was when some Alpha Hotel was trying to beat the scale and I’ve been fishing for 70 years. I’ve spent about five years working on head boats and a couple of years doing commercial pin hooking in the NY Bight. Seventeen of the last twenty years have been spent solely in freshwater with the same results...even with catfish.
The problem with lead shot for waterfowl comes when ducks and geese ingest pebbles to aid digestion. The lead shot may be mixed in with the stones. Exactly how big a problem that is, I have no idea. I’ll gladly leave that determination to others more knowledgeable than I.
Bulls***! There are thousands of them in Alaska, and they are increasing here in Texas. I had a bald eagle in my backyard a few weeks ago.
But what about the other states?
Wasn’t blaming you, just making the point that their claim that ducks and geese eating the lead shot is a load of crap.
In still water with a mud bottom lead sinks at a rate of about 1 1/2 to 2 inches a day, in running water with a sandy bottom lead will sink at over a foot a day.
In both cases the lead will keep sinking until it hits an impermiable layer or bedrock.
Same reason a dredger tries to remove the overburden to get at the heavy metals sitting on bedrock.
the truth is that they are eating the lead paint chips that flake off the wind mills-
“What Is California?”
For Two Hundred Dollars.
Paging Rachel Carson.
and in another story covid kills the elderly in nursing homes not the govenors
I was speaking of rifle rounds. Hopefully you hunt with slugs?
Buck shot can leave lead behind if you field dress.
FYI, GA is not a buckshot state. Slugs or rifles here.
Yeah here in GA we run em all to processors.
Field dressing might make sense if you take a big buck out west. Ours here aren’t that big and you CAN get them on the 4 wheeler by yourself.
The article suggests the animals are getting the lead eating the gut piles left behind. I’d say that’s a real stretch.
This is not science. It is pure advocacy.
It's the same manipulation of data the left uses in appropriations. Baseline budgeting guarantees virtually every federal program will get an increased budget every single year. When a program is slated to grow by 5% and a republican dares to propose it only increase by 3%, the media and dems will raise hell about the proposed, "2% cut."
Lead bird shot is illegal been replaced with steel or bismuth rifle ammo is still lead core.
No, lead shot is federally prohibited for waterfowl and some other migratory birds.
Some states may have banned lead shot/ bullets for hunting completely but not many. CA.
The growth in the eagle population was six less than the year before. Growth, not population. No one knows the number of birds killed by turbines, nor of eagles, but it's far more than 6. In a 2013 study, agency biologists found that the number of eagles killed by wind turbines increased to 24 in 2011 from two in 2007. During the study period, the agency documented 85 eagles that had been killed by wind turbines. And that's nearly a decade ago.
Bull shit
The best course for America is to eradicate the pro UK loyalists among us who insist on no guns
Anti Gun is AntiAmerica and such people are American enemies be they Black or white
W have more bald eagles in my area than ever. It’s routine to see them flying.
It's normal to gut them and leave the gut pile in the woods.....
Each state has their own laws. Here in Michigan, lead shot is only illegal for waterfowl.
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