Our research project investigates lead poisoning in bald and golden eagles. Our team consists of UC Santa Cruz faculty and students who are passionate about conserving healthy populations of eagles across the United States. We know that eagles are lead poisoned on a regular basis from inadvertently ingesting lead fragments while feeding on animals that have been shot with lead-based ammunition. But, without information on their lead exposure history, we can’t understand the severity of this problem. Our research group has developed a method to assess the lead exposure history of a bird across the time span of feather growth. We need your help to analyze eagle feathers! We are seeking $10,000 to pay for the special reagents and instrument time needed to measure lead in ~10 feathers collected from bald and golden eagles. We have witnessed firsthand the heartbreaking suffering that lead-poisoned birds endure and strongly believe that with your help our research will be a critical step to protect eagles from lead. If we raise $2,000 today we can help discover if lead poisoning contributed to the demise of two golden eagles recently found dead in Central California. Can you help us help eagles today? For updates on the Leaded Eagles project contact Myra Finkelstein. http://www.metx.ucsc.edu/research/finkelstein.html
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