On Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:48:16 -0800, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

>In article >,
> wrote:
>
>> After people in the US hunting eagles from helicopters nearly wiped
>> out the eagle population, you were lucky ours were intact. I remember
>> them trucking about 100 bald eagles down to the US from Cape Breton to
>> restore numbers. We still have a golden eagle population and many
>> fish eagles (osprey) - common birds here aside from the bald eagles.
>
>Would you give me a citation from a neutral source for your paragraph
>above? I'd appreciate it. I'm not interested in 100 eagles. "Clean
>energy" kills way more than that every year. I'm interested in the
>supposition that eagle hunting from helicopters was something done in
>the U.S. by anyone other than another stupid, misguided government
>attempt to control them that went bad if it happened at all.
>For a private citizen to kill either a golden or bald eagle is a
>federal crime with severe penalties. Five years in prison. This has
>been true since 1940. Ain't google great! I'll be happy to cite.
>So I'm dying to know where your post came from.
>
>leo
Haven't had much time to search but this shows as late as 1956 they
were hunting birds from the air
https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/airborne-hunting/

I will endeavour to find something else as I know it was not a figment
of my imagination. I was shocked to tell the truth.