A person who merely possesses a single bald eagle feather can be fined up to $100,000 and jailed for a year. But operators of the wind turbines that kill eagles get off scot-free
The new eastern span of the bridge which crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Emeryville was officially opened in September 2013.
As crews demolished the 10,000 foot long steel previous structure where birds roosted, they had to navigate around broadly interpreted state and federal environmental laws designed to protect the feathered critters.
To provide homes for the estimated 1,600 double crested cormorants that nested annually on the old span, 2-1/2 foot wide stainless steel nesting platforms were built at a cost of $709,000.
