ANTIGO - The recent Gun-Deer Season could lead to higher number of animals poisoned with lead. Often times animals may eat deer remains containing lead fragments from bullets. The Raptor Education Group Inc. in Antigo regularly treats birds that eat the contaminated meat.
"Basically it's the hunting season, the that use the lead shot as opposed to the copper-jacketed bullets," said REGI Executive Director Marge Gibson. "The lead fragments are very soft pieces of metal and they dissipate into the tissue of the animal."
Group members tell us they take in countless numbers of lead-poisoned birds.
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