An iconic eagle is electrocuted by the thousands every year. Help may finally be on the way | CNN

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The world's endangered eagles

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Walk beneath old pylons on Kazakhstan’s steppe and dead birds are an all-too-common sight. Bodies still, feet scorched, they litter the ground as powerlines hum overhead.

It’s an unhappy fate for tens of thousands of birds every year, experts estimate. But for one bird, this problem has come into sharp focus.