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Bald eagle
poachers
still sought
By MARK SCOLFORO
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Authorities have renewed their appeal to the public for information about the malicious killing of two bald eagles near Sperryville two weeks ago.
One male and one female eagle, who apparently were a mated pair, were found dumped on a farm near the village of Sperryville, leading to an investigation by the Virginia Game Department’s Enforcement Division and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
A total of $7,000 has been offered as a reward for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the eagles, which are an endangered species.
Virginia Game Warden Jim Bankston, who is investigating, declined to release any additional details of the killings, except to say that he is absolutely certain the birds were killed on purpose and that he knows exactly how they were killed.
“They were the first two bald eagles I’d seen in Rappahannock” that had stayed the winter, he said. Other bald eagles have been seen migrating through the county, but the pair was the first to make the county their home.
The female eagle had been tagged as part of a West Virginia effort to re-establish bald eagle populations in that state, according to Ed Clark of the Wildlife Center of Virginia.
The female was about five years old, the youngest age at which bald eagles can procreate, according to Mr. Bankston. “Unfortunately, they
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