The Wings of Eagles (Local Opinion‪)‬

Byline: Jonathan Smith and Melissa Hart For The Register-Guard On a chilly gray morning in mid-February, a juvenile bald eagle lay tangled in weeds in the McKenzie River off Deerhorn Road. The bird had been peppered with five shotgun pellets; they lodged near his spine and in his neck, just below the soaking wet head feathers that had not yet turned white. One pellet broke the ulna in his wing, which dangled limp in the frigid water.