"A once-common farm pesticide killed millions of birds before the U.S. government took steps to restrict its use in the 1990s and ban it in 2009. Since then, such poisonings have made up a small fraction of deaths among bald eagles — except in Maryland.
Pesticides were a suspected or confirmed factor in about 50 of more than 2,000 reported deaths of the national bird between 2008 and 2017, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a Freedom of Information Act request.
That makes the poisoning deaths of about 25 bald eagles on the Delmarva Peninsula over the past three years — including at least seven since March 1 — all the more troubling, authorities and conservation groups said."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/06/2019
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