Larry, you are being much to simple minded about eagles as you well know.

I agree that the jury is out on all kinds of things but that accidental ingestion of lead shot was an important source of mortality in waterfowl, eagles, condors, and perhaps doves is not. For other birds, hard to say just yet. The definitive data on population level responses is hard beyond belief to get - and expensive.

Larry, have you ever watched winter eagles in places like Kansas, or even the east coast of Iowa? One of their staple foods is duck - wounded or otherwise, but wounded particularly. I have watched them countless times in Kansas where I was ducking in the 80s.

Brent

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