The bald eagle population has been falling for decades in Michigan, but the decline has slowed down in recent years.

Simon found that most of the dead birds were females, The Detroit News reported. Fish and Wildlife Service, examined the deaths of 1,490 bald eagles. The study conducted by biologist Kendall Simon, who works for the U.S. If somebody doesn’t slow down, it’s not like a sparrow who just speeds off into the distance.” “Unlike a lot of smaller birds who can fly off when they see a car coming, it takes a bald eagle a ways to get the engine running and off the road. “Bald eagles are scavengers, and road kill is a favorite form of food for them because they are sitting on the road,” Roberson said. The birds are now more likely to die after getting struck by cars or from lead they consume as they pick off the carcass of road kill and animals, including deer, a recent study in the Journal of Wildlife Management indicated.īut according to Marvin Roberson, a forest ecologist for the Michigan Sierra Club, these causes of death aren’t surprising. (AP) - Bald eagles that soar majestically through Michigan skies are finding danger on the ground even after recovering from the brink of extinction.

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