X-rays show flightless bird found near Springfield was not wounded, but full of roadkill raccoonWildlife officials in Missouri rescued what they thought was an injured and flightless bald eagle, only to discover it had gorged itself on a roadkill raccoon and was “too fat to fly”.The bird was spotted on the ground near the boundary of Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield in Springfield, site of the first major civil war engagement west of the Mississippi river in 1861. Continue reading...
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