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Narragansetts upset that hawk is given to museum for burial

AUTHOR: Karen Floren, Staff Writer for TheDay.com

Narragansett Tribal Historian John Brown says "the birds that carry the wind" have always had a religious and cultural significance to his tribe, and that people who deal with birds of prey in Rhode Island are well aware of that.

So tribal members felt slighted after learning that a red-tail hawk killed last week by turbulence from an airplane at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, R.I., was turned over to an employee of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center.

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Reward offered in bald eagle death

Reward offered in bald eagle death..KEYWORDS: eagle poaching eagle reward eagles endangered species threatened species in the US pacific northwest eagles inland northwest eagles

AUTHOR: Nicholas K. Geranios

SPOKANE, Wash. — A bald eagle was shot to death and left hanging from a tree branch this week, and a federal agency is offering a reward for information about who shot a bird that is the nation’s symbol.

The adult eagle, classified as threatened by the government, was found hanging from a branch in a field about a mile from Sprague, near Highway 231, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Reward offered in bald eagle death »»

American bald eagle to be removed from threatened species list

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The American bald eagle – the national symbol whose decline helped spur the Endangered Species Act and a ban on the pesticide DDT – will be off the threatened species list this year, a top Bush administration official promised Saturday. American bald eagle to be removed from threatened species list »»