Here's What Happens If You Kill A Bald Eagle

If you kill a bald eagle, you'll ironically need a legal eagle to save you. As described bythe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act makes it a crimeto "shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb" the birds, their eggs and their nests. In

If you kill a bald eagle, you'll ironically need a legal eagle to save you. As described by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act makes it a crime to "shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb" the birds, their eggs and their nests. In 1972, Uncle Sam toughened the law, imposing a $5,000 fine or one year behind bars for civil violations. If eagle killing is your version of Pringles, and you can't stop once you pop one, you'll get slapped with a $10,000 or up to two years in prison. A felony conviction gets you two years or a $25,000 fine. For organizations found guilty of such offenses, the punishment doubles.

Bald eagles are also protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, an international agreement between several nations to protect the birds. So even if you were desperate enough to smuggle a bald eagle into Canada, Mexico, Russia, or Japan for the sole purpose of murdering it, the law would not be on your side. For a long time, bald eagles also found themselves on the Endangered Species list because of rampant habitat loss, shooting, and the devastating pesticide DDT. To the likely dismay of Benjamin Franklin's ghost, the creature's recuperated. Meanwhile, turkeys remain on the list of species endangered by their own tastiness. 

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