On Wednesday morning May 20th, just after 6:00 am, California Highway Patrol in Redding California, received reports from motorists of an injured mature bald eagle in the median of I-5 near Redding.
California Highway Patrol Officers, Shasta County animal control, and the Department of Fish & Wildlife arrived on scene and within minutes to find a large bald eagle standing in the number one lane.
Officials observed no obvious sign of physical injury in the form of broken wings, but there was what appeared to be some blood coming from its mouth.
Working as a team they prodded the bird to move out of the traffic lane and successfully captured the bird while wearing heavy gloves and using a heavy blanket. The Department of Fish & Wildlife then carefully caged the eagle and transported the eagle to the Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue facility to be examined and treated.
During follow up research on this incident, the Wild Coast Compass learned that the nine-pound mature male bald eagle, unfortunately, died later that morning from what appears to be poisoning after possibly consuming a poisoned rodent, representatives from Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue reported.
