{"id":276162,"date":"2026-09-01T01:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276162\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:22:10","slug":"bald-eagle-found-mortally-injured-along-pennsylvania-trail-authorities-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276162\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle found mortally injured along Pennsylvania trail, authorities investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) &#8212; Authorities in Pennsylvania are trying to find the person responsible for shooting and killing a bald eagle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The young bald eagle was found along the Westmoreland Heritage Trail near the Beaver Run Reservoir in Salem Township, Westmoreland County, on Tuesday, Aug. 25,<a data-ylk=\"slk:according to a Monday social media post by the Pennsylvania Game Commission;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DhBpwjEoX\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> according to a Monday social media post by the Pennsylvania Game Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bird was still alive when a state game warden was called to the area, but it died before it could be taken to a rehabilitator, the post states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pellet that looked to have been shot from an air rifle was found stuck in the eagle&#8217;s wing. The PGC said it was able to determine the eagle was likely shot a week prior due to the infection of the wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[sailthru_widget name=&#8221;Sailthru Widget Block&#8221; sailthru_list=&#8221;Livestream Alerts&#8221; title=&#8221;Livestream Alerts&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The PGC is asking anyone who has information to contact them at 1-888-PGC-8001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) &#8212; Authorities in Pennsylvania are trying to find the person responsible for shooting and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308,115457,28,30,29,100247,5910,115851],"class_list":["post-276162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-inc","tag-nexstar-media","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pgc","tag-westmoreland-county","tag-widget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}