Vultures make Honesdale look "like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," a resident says. They're also helpful by clearing dead animals ...

"Very different shape from Turkey Vulture: stocky, short-tailed, with bigger head, broad wings.... Whitish patch near wingtips shows up in flight." Sounds: "Hisses or grunts; seldom heard." ...

Some bald eagles call Connecticut home all year long, but others visit for the winter, looking for open water to fish.

Rock said some of the signs of lead poisoning in bald eagles can include staggering, an inability to fly, a lack of depth perception, being unable to grab items off the ground, paralysis of the voice ...

In addition to the two eagles that died, the centre is also treating three other birds recovering from lead poisoning. Those birds — two bald eagles and a turkey vulture — arrived in November.