![]() Mr Carr said the charges before the court only related to birds that died from July 2019 onwards. The pathologist gave dates for the possible deaths of the birds ranging from as early as 2011 to August 2019. The carcasses were decomposed to varying degrees, with many only skeletons. Mr Carr also spoke of an experienced animal pathologist’s report that showed she conducted post-mortem examinations on 151 wedge-tailed eagle carcasses, 59 medium-sized raptors, 10 galahs and 10 other birds. The investigation turned up 271 dead birds and animals. The galah had been butchered, and traces of the crop insecticide omethoate were found on its skin, and the prosecutor alleges it was used to bait the eagle. ![]() The court was told officers from the then Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning started an investigation after a dead wedge-tailed eagle and galah were found near the Sloan property in 2019. “She believed wedge-tailed eagles killed lambs and that explains, according to the prosecution, her conduct.” “She ran a systematic baiting program to bait wedge-tailed eagles on and around the property,” Mr Carr said. He said Mrs Sloan “may have had some assistance” with baiting the birds but was still complicit in it. On day one of the contested hearing on Monday, December 4, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning prosecutor Chris Carr said Mrs Sloan ran the 750-hectare property that had mainly sheep but also had some cattle and cropping. ![]() She has pleaded guilty to 26 charges of wildlife possession – including four kangaroo joeys and 22 birds, mainly galahs and ducks. Mrs Sloan has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of poisoning medium-sized raptors with bait, poisoning 11 wedge-tail eagles with bait, seven counts of animal cruelty that resulted in the death of six wedge-tail eagles and a whistling kite, poisoning a whistling kite, and five counts of possessing wildlife. She is accused of baiting the birds using other dead birds that had been injected with a pesticide generally used on crops. She is facing 69 charges related to the deaths of eagles and other medium-sized raptors, such as falcons and whistling kites.
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