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Alleged Killer of Beloved Pennsylvania Bald Eagle Turns Self in — as ‘Devastated’ Residents Demand Answers
New York Post ^ | July 8, 2023 | Rich Calder

Posted on 07/08/2023 5:41:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Pennsylvania poacher who allegedly killed a Pittsburgh suburb’s beloved bald eagle later turned themselves in — but locals are fuming at the lack of information on the suspect from authorities.

“The killing of our beloved eagle had a major impact on the entire community,” Cherry Valley Lakeview Estates resident Linda Carnevali told The Post Saturday.

“We cannot fathom why anyone would want to harm our eagles and take it to the extreme of killing one.” The eagle, who Carnevali and her husband Raymond called “Sam” after the popular character “Sam the Eagle” in Disney’s Muppet Vision 3D, was allegedly shot to death in May near the Cherry Valley Dam, nearly 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: baldeagle; chat; localnews; outdoors; pennsylvania; wildlife
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To: Bonemaker

The bulk of their food is fish and roadkill.
They do eat snow geese occasionally, if they can catch them. In the Midwest they dive at snow geese flocks, causing the geese to fly up in one great mass, bumping into and injuring each other. The injured ones fall back to the ground or fall behind the flock of other geese, making them easy pickings for the Eagles.

But, eagles are not intentionally cruel, as humans sometimes are. They are hunting for food to hold back hunger, or to feed their rapidly growing chicks, not looking to entertain themselves or to make themselves feel powerful, as a criminal would. When an eagle takes prey it dispatches it as quickly as it is able, it doesn’t exactly have a veterinary kit to knock its victims out before consuming.

The prey is unlikely to feel very much, usually the adrenaline released in trauma and shock pretty much dulls it. Saying that as someone who has been run over by farm machinery, bit by animals on occasion, and once, assaulted by a nutcase intent on blinding me (which was the worst)— you don’t really feel that much after the initial hit/bite because your adrenaline and heart and other systems go crazy.


41 posted on 07/08/2023 8:32:06 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Blennos

I noticed that also.


42 posted on 07/08/2023 9:23:20 PM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: nickcarraway

Windmills kill lots of them. These birds are all over the Colombia Gorge. Yes, I am upset someone would purposely kill one of these majestic birds. But it is a bird. And our green overlords kill thousands.


43 posted on 07/09/2023 12:10:39 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Bonemaker

Well, the person accused of killing the Bald Eagle can have their day in court and use the defense of it was their right to kill a Bald Eagle, or whatever defense they will use.


44 posted on 07/09/2023 5:54:06 AM PDT by Fury
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To: hoosierham

So because wind turbines kill Bald Eagles, then NO
killing of Bald Eagles should be prosecuted?

I truly do not follow that logic.


45 posted on 07/09/2023 5:57:02 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury
Mere possession of an eagle feather one may have innocently picked up is a Union government crime. That's how bad it's gotten. Never bothered indians though and they were totally respectful of mother nature.


46 posted on 07/09/2023 6:14:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Blennos

Daily Mail from the seat of proper English is loaded with this kind of language butchery.


47 posted on 07/09/2023 6:17:04 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: thegagline

They killed a swan.


48 posted on 07/09/2023 6:18:12 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Here, you’ll like this.

Deer stomps hawk to death to save a rabbit.

https://youtu.be/T3daEXYe19g


49 posted on 07/09/2023 6:27:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Bonemaker

Should make a good defense for the accused.


50 posted on 07/09/2023 6:28:06 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Blennos
A poacher “turned themselves in...” what language is this ?

As far as I can tell, it’s woke vernacular with a hedge just in case this particular they/them is a them.

51 posted on 07/09/2023 6:40:21 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: liberalh8ter; Bonemaker

It’s funny and tragic at the same time. Language tends to mirror the intellectual process. This sort of faddish anti-grammar reflects sorely lacking rational thinking skills. Were I the author of this piece, I would be ashamed.


52 posted on 07/09/2023 8:10:20 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"Let's allow the suspect the opportunity to make restitution. Throw him off the US Steel building roof and if he can fly, he can replace the bald Eagle himself."

Excellent idea. I could get behind that!

53 posted on 07/09/2023 9:20:15 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Bonemaker
They are freaking hawks! They pluck the feathers off other birds while in their talons before they start tearing meat off the live victim. Not a nice creature.

I agree with Franklin. The turkey should have been the national bird, since it can easily feed a family of 4 for a week!

54 posted on 07/09/2023 9:25:16 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: nickcarraway

Shame.


55 posted on 07/09/2023 10:15:36 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Bonemaker
They killed a swan.

“Federal Authorities Hesitant to Charge Honduran Nationals Suspected of Killing a Bald Eagle” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/03/federal-authorities-hesitant-charge-honduran-nationals-suspected-killing-bald-eagle/

56 posted on 07/09/2023 1:15:46 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024 )
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To: thegagline
Apologies ...we're both right- two separate incidents. Hard to keep track of all the crap going on.

Fowl Play: Foreign Nationals Kill and Eat Beloved Town Swan - Free Beacon

57 posted on 07/09/2023 3:11:02 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Blennos

Its “woke” language. The same woke that calls strait people “cis”.

I don’t care for sloppy english, either.


58 posted on 07/09/2023 6:11:16 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Fury

Well, yes.

Because if inefficient costly windmills are permitted to kill hundreds of eagles and thousands upon thousands of other birds then obviously the government isn’t truly concerned about the birds.


59 posted on 07/10/2023 11:03:39 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: piasa

Oh those beautiful hawks...who swoop down on domestic fowl,small pets, young sheep......; and bears and wolves and coyotes and tigers never attack people😡.

Predators prey. Of course I understand some people admire predators.


60 posted on 07/10/2023 11:20:15 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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