State officials are investigating the death of what appears to be a bald eagle in Rocky Hill on Monday.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection received a report of a dead eagle along Great Meadows Road in Rocky Hill at 10:13 a.m. Dec. 13 and said it appears that it was struck and killed by a car.
State Environmental Conservation police responded, retrieved the eagle and turned it over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which will determine the cause of death.
Should the Fish and Wildlife exam indicates the cause of death was anything to the contrary to the crash, they will conduct a more detailed exam and take any and all appropriate actions from there.
DEEP said it appears this was a bald eagle, a state-threatened species, but the officer involved could not confirm that.
