Nugget

Nugget was the name of the golden eagle USM used to have.

The Death of Nugget
On Sunday, December 6, 1992, Nugget was found lying face down, dead, in his cage. A local vet did an autopsy and found shotgun pellets under his skin. They decided that Nugget had died of lead poisoning and that he had been shot about six weeks before his death. Then the US government (golden eagles were endangered or protected at the time) did its own investigation and decided that Nugget had actually starved to death.

(source: The Southerner, 1993, p 49)