Gabriolan.ca » eagles http://gabriolan.ca Gabriola Island blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:12:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What poisons eagles http://gabriolan.ca/2010/02/07/what-poisons-eagles/ http://gabriolan.ca/2010/02/07/what-poisons-eagles/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:16:15 +0000 Gabriolan http://gabriolan.ca/?p=5853 Gabriola eagles at DrumbegI’ve read about eagles in other parts of North America getting sick on food they eat because of lead poisoning. Do eagles on the BC coast suffer from lead poisoning, too? Apparently. According to a Canwest article, two Vancouver Island eagles died from lead poisoning last year:

Two Vancouver Island eagles that died last spring were killed by ingesting lead — possibly from eating fishing jigs or discarded lead shot, toxicology reports show.

The North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre recently received toxicology reports on two eagles submitted for testing in March 2009. The two eagles from the Parksville and Qualicum Beach were severely emaciated and had no fractures or visible hemorrhaging.

[The article quoted above is no longer available on the newspaper's website.]

That’s pretty close to Gabriola. I hope our island eagles are free of lead.

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