Vets 'Not Giving Up Yet' on Shot Baby Bald Eagle

Vets at the Wildlife Rehabilitators of Rhode Island are treating the injured bald eagle in Saunderstown.

  Veterinarians at a local animal hospital have been working for more than a week to nurse a baby bald eagle back to health after it was shot in Johnston. The female eagle was found injured in the Central Landfill on Tuesday, Feb. 12 with what veterinarians at Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island in Saunderstown (where the bird is being treated) first thought was lead poisoning. After treating the bird with expensive medications that would remove the lead from the bird's body and seeing little results, WRARI staff brought it to Ocean State Veterinary Specialists for an x-ray, which they donated, almost a week after the bird was brought in. That's when they discovered that the bird had actually been shot in the head. One …

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