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Bald eagle poisoning deaths have become rare across U.S., but not in a part of Maryland dubbed 'bald eagle central'

A once-common farm pesticide killed millions of birds before the U.S. government took steps to restrict its use in the 1990s and ban it in 2009. Since then, such poisonings have made up a small fraction of deaths among bald eagles — except in Maryland. Pesticides were a suspected or confirmed factor…
Source: Sun

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