{"id":897531,"date":"2026-10-28T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:48:14","slug":"skegemog-urges-hunters-to-go-lead-free-as-firearm-deer-season-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897531\/","title":{"rendered":"Skegemog urges hunters to go lead-free as firearm deer season approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; Nov. 15 marks the first day of Michigan\u2019s firearm deer season, a season that the Skegemog Raptor Center in Traverse City says poses a serious threat to bald eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, center staff said they treated 15 to 20 bald eagles that had lead poisoning due to ingesting lead ammunition during deer season.<\/p>\n<p>Lead ammunition is typically ingested when bald eagles scavenge deer remains like gut piles and unrecovered deer left behind in fields after hunting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can cause a number of different things,\u201d said James Manley, executive director of Skegemog. \u201cIt starts attacking the red blood cells; it can affect their GI function. So sometimes we have birds that come in and they can&#8217;t even hold a liquid diet. And even though we&#8217;re giving them meds to help with GI movement. It can affect their kidneys and their liver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Skegemog Raptor Center suggests switching to non-lead ammunition and burying deer gut piles to help protect bald eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal imaging helps catch inmate who escaped jail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; Nov. 15 marks the first day of Michigan\u2019s firearm deer season, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-897531","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\/897531","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=897531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}