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Eagle survives encounter with train
By Rick Steelhammer, The Charleston Gazette
The luck of the Irish was apparently with Whitey, the male half of a New River Gorge nesting bald eagle pair, who was struck by an Amtrak passenger train on St. Patrick's Day and presumed dead -- until he was seen perched on a tree near his nest early Wednesday.

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Eagle survives encounter with train
By Rick Steelhammer, The Charleston Gazette
The luck of the Irish was apparently with Whitey, the male half of a New River Gorge nesting bald eagle pair, who was struck by an Amtrak passenger train on St. Patrick's Day and presumed dead -- until he was seen perched on a tree near his nest early Wednesday.

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