Unfortunately, that brings back some bad memories for me. When I was much younger, I was hiking in Washington with my wife, and we came across a dead body of a Bald Eagle. We were on a 5 day hike in the wilderness, and the only food we had was the freeze dried packs in our backpacks, and that was getting real old, and we were feeling a little too weak to make the hike back out. I assessed the situation: the body was still fresh, it appeared to have been healthy, and no one else was around for miles. I made a judgment call and plucked, cleaned, cooked and ate the bird.
Sure enough, as fate would have it, a Ranger comes up on us and sees the feathers.
We didn't have to worry about hiking out at this point because he hauled us in, handcuffed, in his 4x4. Being a small town, we got put before a judge on the same day. So- I tell him the whole story, about being weak and hungry, and that the bird was already dead- and he decides to let me go with only a warning!
I should have shut my mouth and ran straight home after that, but on my way out, the Judge asked me "by the way, I can't help but wonder- what does Bald Eagle taste like?", and I answered- "well, it tastes just like Spotted Owl"
He threw me in the hole for 30 days.
Bad memories, man.