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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:11 PM
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Maher said a bald eagle recently died of mecury posioning, true?
Any pictures of our country's symbol dead?
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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:14 PM
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1. I don't really want to see pictures but...
It certainly wouldn't be the first time an upper food chain predator bird has fallen to mercury poisoning.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:15 PM
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2. Can you find a source for this story? I'd like to pass that one around...
NGU.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:16 PM
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4. It was West Nile
Condor chick falls victim to West Nile
Santa Barbara News-Press (subscription), CA - Sep 14, 2005
... of a California condor chick that hatched in the wild nearly four months ago, making the baby bird the first member of the endangered species to die from the ...
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:15 PM
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3. It was a baby Condor
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:17 PM
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5. One thing's certain. You know damn well that President Fuckup
didn't give a rat's ass when he heard about it. He probably laughed and cracked dumb jokes.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:19 PM
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6. Here's the article:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-09-12-bald-eagle-mercury_x.htm
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vicman Donating Member (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 07:22 PM
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7. More detail here
the bird didn't die, but the treatment could be germaine to the issue at hand

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050910/NEWS01/509100440/1006
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