The Pennsylvania Game Commission is seeking the person who shot and killed a juvenile bald eagle that was found Aug. 25 along the Westmoreland Heritage Trail near the Beaver Run Reservoir in Salem.<\/p>\n
The state game warden was dispatched to the area in response to a report of an injured bald eagle lying in the woods along the trail, but the bird died before it could be transferred to a rehabilitator, the Game Commission said.<\/p>\n
What appeared to be a pellet shot from an air rifle and lodged in the eagle\u2019s wing was found during a postmortem inspection of the bird. Due to the advanced infection of the wound, the eagle was likely shot more than a week prior, the Game Commission said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the unlawful shooting is asked to report it to the Game Commission\u2019s Central Dispatch at 833-PGC-HUNT or the Operation Game Thief Hotline at 1-888-PGC-8001 or online at bit.ly\/PGCOGT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Game Commission is seeking the person who shot and killed a juvenile bald eagle that was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-610819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}