Illegal shooting main cause of Idaho power line bird deaths idahostatesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from idahostatesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, 'The New York Times reported, “A survey of power lines in four Western states found bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in most of the dead birds that were collected” (not true) and 'Two-thirds of birds found dead beneath power lines had been shot' (also not true).