Eagle Death Toll Now at 22 After Mishap

January 14th, 2008

(AP) -- Most of the 30 bald eagles who survived a disastrous dive into a truck full of fish guts are close to recovery, said officials at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

May 16, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 3

Bald Eagles no longer endangered

Dec 26, 2006 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0

Bald eagles settle in U.S. winter locales

Jan 06, 2008 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

Indiana bald eagle recovery huge success

Jun 20, 2006 | 4 / 5 (6) | 0

Webcam fans mourn Calif. bald eagle chick deaths

Apr 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

rank
1
2
3
4
5

3.9/5 after 7 votes

Other News

Theory provides more precise estimates of large-area biodiversity

Biology / Ecology

52 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0

Ask biologists how many species live in a pond, a grassland, a mountain range or on the entire planet, and the answers get increasingly vague. Hence the wide range of estimates for the planet's biodiversity, predicted to ...

Getting mosquitoes to kill their own

Biology / Other

1hour ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's about mosquitoes killing mosquitoes.

Beetle, fungus deliver one-two punch to black walnut trees

Biology / Ecology

1hour ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered disease, caused by a previously undescribed fungus hitchhiking on a tiny native bark beetle, is infecting and killing hundreds of black walnut trees in California and seven ...

Thousands of plant species likely to go extinct in Amazon

Biology / Ecology

1hour ago | not rated yet | 0

As many as 4,550 of the more than 50,000 plant species in the Amazon will likely disappear because of land-use changes and habitat loss within the next 40 years, according to a new study by two Wake Forest University researchers.

Research may hold key to maintaining embryonic stem cells in lab

Biology / Biotechnology

4 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

In a new study that could transform embryonic stem cell (ES cell) research, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered why mouse ES cells can be easily grown in a laboratory while other mammalian ...