Our national bird, the bald eagle, is under siege from environmental contaminants. A new study, as reported in The Seattle Times, found that over 50 percent of bald eagles have lead in their systems, and another national study, published last year, found anticoagulant rat poisons in over 80 percent of bald eagles and 77 percent of golden eagles. More

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