I thought they were opportunistic carrion scavengers and mostly hunted fish, unlike other large raptors that hunt birds or small mammals? So eating shot that was stuck in a wounded deer that ran off and was lost before dying is possible, or lead weights in a fish (or other bioaccumulation in fish).
I thought they were opportunistic carrion scavengers and mostly hunted fish, unlike other large raptors that hunt birds or small mammals? So eating shot that was stuck in a wounded deer that ran off and was lost before dying is possible, or lead weights in a fish (or other bioaccumulation in fish).
This is true for bald eagles, yes.
My rhetoric was pretty off the mark in multiple respects here.
I appreciate the corrections.