{"id":834025,"date":"2026-09-02T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834025\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:12:09","slug":"pa-wildlife-officials-investigation-unlawful-killing-of-juvenile-bald-eagle-in-salem-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa wildlife officials investigation unlawful killing of juvenile Bald Eagle in Salem Twp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) \u2014 Officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission say an investigation is underway after a juvenile Bald Eagle was reportedly shot in Westmoreland County and later died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the unlawful shooting was discovered last week along the Westmoreland Heritage Trail in Salem Township.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials say the injured eagle was found lying in the woods along the trail and succumbed to its injuries before authorities could provide it with proper rehabilitative care.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further investigation, authorities say they discovered a pellet from an air rifle lodged in the eagle&#8217;s wing.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials believe that the eagle was shot approximately a week prior to being found, causing a severe wound infection that contributed to the bird&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on this illegal killing is urged to contact the Pennsylvania Game Commission or the Operation Game Thief Hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) \u2014 Officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission say an investigation is underway after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-834025","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\/834025","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=834025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}