Bald eagle dies 2 days after it was 'struck by vehicle' in Wisconsin: 'So sad'

A bald eagle that was being cared for aft it was accidentally struck by an automobile successful northeast Wisconsin has died, wildlife officials confirmed to Fox News Digital.

"Unfortunately we bash not person bully news," Sue Theys, president of Wildlife Of Wisconsin (W.O.W.), told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday, May 30. 

"Upon introspection we discovered the vertebrate was precise thin, which is wherefore it was astir apt deed successful the archetypal place. It wasn't beardown capable to get retired of the mode of the car and assistance off," Theys continued. "We instantly began to gavage the vertebrate and put him connected symptom meds."  

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"Unfortunately it had passed wrong 48 hours and we were incapable to find what initially brought it down," she besides said. "We volition beryllium checking with the DNR Vet to spot if they privation to bash a necropsy."

On May 25, local police successful Kewaunee, Wisconsin, announced connected Facebook that a bald eagle had been deed by a conveyance and was being cared for by a section rescue group.

The bald eagle is held by Jerry Theys of Wildlife of Wisconsin (W.O.W.) 48 hours earlier the vertebrate died. Sue Theys, president of W.O.W., told Fox News Digital the eagle arrived successful her staff's attraction "starving." Theys said it's arsenic if the eagle died of thing different than the collision.  (Kewaunee County Sheriff's Department)

"This day our bureau was contacted successful respect to a bald eagle, which was struck by a vehicle," the Kewaunee County Sheriff's Department wrote successful a post. 

"Deputies responded and located the eagle successful the ditch."

The sheriff's section initially said the eagle's beak was dented, but that it didn't prolong immoderate superior injuries.

W.O.W., an biology conservation enactment located successful Cato, had subsequently revealed connected Facebook that the eagle was taking symptom medications but was "otherwise doing well."

The station besides said, "Hope to merchandise soon arsenic determination whitethorn beryllium young successful the nest. Thanks to the Kewaunee Sheriff's Department for contacting us."

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Events took a turn, however, erstwhile the eagle showed nary signs of betterment and the bird's wellness status declined, according to Theys.

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W.O.W. officials had performed an exam of the eagle, which had debased value and had been starving, Theys noted.

"This eagle, I don't think actually died from the impact," Theys said. "I deliberation thing other was going on. I'm definite [the collision] contributed to immoderate helium was suffering from."

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Theys said that "unfortunately excessively frequently," W.O.W. has cared for eagles stuck by an automobile — with astir one-to-two casualties per year, she said.

Her main connection to drivers is to "slow down" and stock the roads with animals, particularly successful agrarian areas of the U.S. She besides said that drivers tin honk their horns oregon flash their lights if they spot wildlife crossing up up of them. 

The motorist who struck the vertebrate did halt to telephone authorities, said Theys. The bald eagle whitethorn person been excessively anemic to instrumentality formation and determination retired of harm's way, she added. 

A bald eagle is seen 24 hours aft being deed by an automobile successful Kewaunee, Wisconsin. The vertebrate ended up dying wrong 48 hours of May 27, erstwhile authorities were called to the scene. Theys said astatine 1 point, the eagle could hardly assistance its head. "It was truthful sad," she told Fox News Digital. (Wildlife of Wisconsin)

Kewaunee County Sheriff Matthew Joski echoed this advisory. 

"A imaginable connection to motorists is to beryllium alert of your surroundings and the imaginable for wildlife to participate into your lane of travel," Joski told Fox News Digital via email. 

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"Especially during the outpouring play erstwhile birds whitethorn beryllium nesting, their keen consciousness of velocity and region tin go compromised by their instinct to protect a adjacent nest oregon their absorption connected the hunting of prey," Joski added.

On the close is Jerry Theys, hubby of Sue Theys. Both enactment for the Wildlife of Wisconsin (W.O.W.) successful Cato, Wisconsin, wherever a bald eagle was cared for aft it was struck by a vehicle. The eagle died 48 hours aft the accident. (Kewaunee County Sheriff's Department)

Joski went connected to accidental that successful Wisconsin, there's an summation successful accidents involving definite taxon depending connected the season.

"Defensive driving is not constricted to different motorists, oregon adjacent pedestrians, but [to] each and each obstacle that could contiguous itself during your travels," Joski said.

The eagle's feathers volition beryllium sent to a section Native American community. 

In 2019, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) counted 1,684 occupied nests successful Wisconsin, which had accrued by 108 successful the 1970s, it reported.

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Theys said the DNR volition execute a necropsy (animal autopsy) successful the anticipation of determining immoderate unwellness and origin of death.

The bald eagle whitethorn person been excessively anemic to determination distant from a motorist that was coming its mode earlier it was struck successful Wisconsin connected May 27, 2023. (Kewaunee County Sheriff's Department)

The process volition assistance Theys and W.O.W. officials dainty animals that whitethorn beryllium suffering from similar sicknesses, Theys said.

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The eagle's assemblage volition beryllium sent to the National Eagle Repository and its feathers volition beryllium sent to a section Native American community, Theys added.