{"id":604318,"date":"2026-04-24T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:49:15","slug":"bald-eagle-recovering-after-being-shot-in-the-face-transferred-from-whatcom-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604318\/","title":{"rendered":"Bald eagle recovering after being shot in the face, transferred from Whatcom County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAWS says the eagle has been responding well to treatment and hopes remain high that he&#8217;ll be able to return to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>WHATCOM COUNTY, WA (<a href=\"http:\/\/MyBellinghamNow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MyBellinghamNow.com<\/a>) \u2013 A bald eagle is recovering after it was found with a gruesome injury in Whatcom County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PAWSWashington?ref=embed_post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Progressive Animal Welfare Society, or PAWS, says<\/a> the Whatcom Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center transferred the bird to its Lynwood facility at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>X-rays showed that the eagle had been shot in the face at some point.<\/p>\n<p>The wildlife team discovered metal fragments lodged in the back of the bird\u2019s jaw, which caused his bill to misalign.<\/p>\n<p>To fix it, they carefully reshaped his bill and fitted him with a specialized headgear to correct the alignment over time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the injury usually being a \u201cdeath sentence\u201d in the wild, PAWS says the eagle has been responding well to treatment and hopes remain high that he\u2019ll be able to return to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The Whatcom Humane Society has not responded to My Bellingham Now for additional comment on the eagle\u2019s discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAWS says the eagle has been responding well to treatment and hopes remain high that he&#8217;ll be able&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-604318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}