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The initiative's aim, which could begin as early as this upcoming fall, is to create a "nonessential experimental population" in the Pacific Northwest — where the birds haven't lived in the wild for a century.
Up here, they mostly died from lead poisoning, although now laws have been changed to reduce the incidents. So it's "welcome back, buzzards!"
