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By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine biologists are trying to better understand golden eagles, an endangered species that has not nested in the state since 1997. To that end, those studying the birds’ habits, including Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group, Conservation Science Global and state biologists, are asking Maine residents to help them gather the information they need to figure out why the birds are seen but aren’t nesting here.

Researchers are asking Maine residents to help them gather the information they need to figure out why golden eagles are seen but aren’t nesting here.

Eagles and other wildlife are routinely poisoned by eating pieces of lead ammunition left behind in the remains of animals killed by hunters. But bans have

Bald eagles at Cheyenne Bottoms in Barton County. File photo KDWPPRATT

In October, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule to ban the use of lead ammunition in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia and Maryland -- and