So I got into a discussion with someone on "Carolina Birders" facebook page. It started with someone posting a link to a story about "Bald eagles are federally protected, but experts said they're dying from lead poisoning from the lead found in hunter's bullets on the North Carolina coast."
It was a pretty civil back-and-forth but it led to the other guy, trying to make a point, posted the link below...
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication...25UmWfRjsyAPs4
From the article...emphasis was mine...
Even with this the enviros still want to continue to ban lead shot and now lead bullets...even when their own science disagrees with them...The proportion of lead poisoning diagnoses for bald eagles submitted to the National Wildlife Health Center displayed a statistically significant increase in all flyways after the autumn 1991 ban on the use of lead shot for waterfowl hunting. Thus, lead poisoning was a significant cause of mortality in our necropsied eagles, suggesting a continued need to evaluate the trade-offs of lead ammunition for use on game other than waterfowl versus the impacts of lead on wildlife populations.
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