what is the purpose for killing bald eagles?

Question

need to know why people are killing bald eagles for report

Answer 1

uhh. why are they?i havent heard about this. but im sure that ppeople are doing because they are dumb! and have to consideration for anything!

Answer 2

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken the unusual step of issuing a permit allowing an American Indian tribe to kill two bald eagles for religious purposes. The agency's decision comes after the Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit last year contending the refusal to issue such permits violates tribal members' religious freedom The bald eagle was removed from the federal list of threatened species in 2007, following its reclassification in 1995 from endangered to threatened. However, the species has remained protected under the federal Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. It's been nearly three years since the Arapaho tribe filed an application for a permit to kill eagles, said Andy Baldwin, lawyer for the tribe, adding that he believed the Northern Arapaho would not have received the permit without going to court.

Answer 3

Bald Eagles are birds of prey. A lot of ranchers might want to shoot them as they are huge and have the ability to carry off a lamb without any problems. however, it is illegal to kill a bald eagle as it's a protected animal. There are very few of them left alive in the United States, which is basically the only place they are found, other than in Canada, which is a part of North America.

Answer 4

I could imagine the only reason bald eagles would be culled is because the were becoming a danger to people or livestock, which would be rare, or they are over populated, which could hapen very easily. But i say, rather than Culling, live capture and sell on to falconers and breeders across seas and put the money into the conservation.

Answer 5

I have never killed one, but one really made me mad. It carried off one of my kittens for a quick snack. Made me sick!
I see them all the time in the spring and fall. They follow the geese migration and eat the weak or injured ones.
I assume you can get big bucks for body parts. That would be the only reason I could think of why someone would kill one and face a very expensive fine.
I think there is a bigger population than estimated. I will see 5-10 in a week (different birds) and then in the paper one was spotted and it makes the news.
Good luck on your report.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The Bald Eagle is a Federally protected bird in the USA.
Decimation of bald eagle populations by pesticides and other environmental contaminants was far more insidious than anything biologists had yet witnessed. By the mid- 1960s, the decline in breeding bald eagles exceeded 50 percent in some areas and approached 100 percent in extreme cases. In addition, nesting failures of 55 percent to 96 percent were found for the remaining nesting pairs.

Protection for the bald eagle came slowly. Not until 1940, when the Bald Eagle Act was signed, was the killing of bald eagles in the lower 48 states prohibited. In Alaska, a bounty was in effect from 1917 to 1945 and again from 1949 to 1953. More than 100,000 eagles were killed, each pair of feet bringing from 50 cents to $2. Finally, in 1953, the Territorial Bald Eagle Bounty Law was repealed in Alaska, making the indiscriminate killing of bald eagles illegal.

In the early 1970s, the use of several organochlorine pesticides, including DDT, was banned in the United States. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 created additional framework for future protection of the bald eagle and its habitat and provided for fines of $10,000 to $20,000 and/or imprisonment of one to two years for the killing or sale of bald eagles. The bald eagle was listed as endangered under the Nebraska Nongame and Endangered Species Conservation Act concurrent with its listing under the Federal Act in 1978.

The current minimum estimate of bald eagle nesting pairs in the lower 48 states is 2,600. A recent estimate of wintering populations in the 48 contiguous states is 13,500.

Many nests have been built and attended by bald eagles in Nebraska since the mid- 1980s, but no eggs are known to have been laid. The first documented successful nesting and fledging of young bald eagles in Nebraska since the late 1800s occurred in Sherman County in 1992. Bald eagles nested in Douglas County in 1991, but no young survived to fledging. In 1993, six bald eagle young were fledged from two nests, one in Scotts Bluff County, the other in Sherman County. Two additional nests adjacent to Nebraska seastern border were active in 1993, and one fledged two young. Based on the growing population of eagles nationwide and the increasing number of adult bald eagles observed outside the wintering period in Nebraska, additional undetected or unreported nesting attempts are probably occurring in the state.

Nebraska's wintering bald eagle population is highly variable, ranging from 409 in 1984 to 1,292 in 1992. An average of 714 bald eagles have been counted in Nebraska during the annual midwinter surveys for the 1980-1993 period.

Sapphyre
Certified Avian Specialist
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Answer 8

It is illegal to kill a bald eagle. If you know someone who is doing it, please report them to the Wildlife service.

Answer 9

I found this site for you. I hope it helps. Good luck with your report.

Answer 10

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