Eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, not all of which are closely related. Most of the 60 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just 14 species can be found—2 in North America, 9 in Central and South America, and 3 in Australia,More info:wiki
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#10 Young Bald Eagles Live Life in the Fast Lane,More info:hakaimagazine
It was an epic trip for a five year old. Shaa left from Chilkat Pass in southern Alaska, and traveled into the Yukon. He arced east toward the Northwest Territories, where he passed over the Peel River, turned southwest to the City of Dawson, crossed back into Alaska, turned around, crept along Kluane Lake, and finally settled in the Village of Haines Junction. And he did all this in just 10 days.
Shaa isn’t the son of a mountaineering explorer, sled dog racer, or floatplane pilot—he’s a bald eagle. In all, Shaa looped a 2,300-kilometer path over the Arctic—had he instead flown south in a straight line, he would have made it almost to San Francisco.
“He went on a soul-searching journey,” jokes Rachel Wheat, a postdoctoral researcher at the State University of New York.
Shaa was one of 28 bald eagles that Wheat and her colleagues caught and fitted with GPS transmitters. Using the satellite tags, the scientists tracked the birds’ movements from the spring of 2010 to early January 2016, watching from a computer as they zigzagged across southeastern Alaska and Western Canada. The study has important implications for the future of eagle conservation.
#9 Eagles Are Being Killed for Black-Market Body Parts,More info:nationalgeographic
PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTAAn undercover agent was on his way to a house in Rapid City, South Dakota, to meet with a man about some eagles. The raptors in question were dead, and the man, 54-year-old Troy Fairbanks, was allegedly looking to unload their feathers and feet.
For a year and a half the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, posing as a crafts and antiques collector, had been buying eagle parts from Fairbanks, building a case against the self-described “best feather man in the Midwest” for selling eagles and other protected birds, according to legal documents
On this occasion, February 3, 2016, Fairbanks had invited the agent to his home to scope out his latest offerings. Allegedly for sale: eagle wings stuffed in a suitcase and dresser drawers; wooden sticks capped with severed eagle heads; eagle feet stored in the basement; and, hanging from walls, eagle feather-laden bustles, the kind worn by Native American men during dances. The agent forked over $800 for various eagle parts..
#8 Bald Eagl,More info:insideclimatenews
#7 Eagle Watch Bus Tour – Wait List Only,More info:delawarehighlands
#6 Bald eagle images,More info:peoplesbarbque
#5 Want to see bald eagles, thousands of waterfowl? Visit wildlife refuge north of KC,More info:kansascity
The eagles are back — along with more than 160,000 other migratory birds.
Conservationists had counted more than 100 bald eagles already at the Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Missouri as of early last week, making them the star attraction for this weekend’s annual Eagle Days.
The public is invited to the free event Saturday and Sunday to admire the wildlife, see zoologists present a live eagle show, hike the bluffs or take a driving tour.
“Extensive wetlands at Loess Bluffs attract large flocks of ducks and geese, often numbering in the thousands,” according to the Missouri Department of Conservation, which partners with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in presenting Eagle Days. “The refuge is a key stopover for southward migrating waterfowl and shore birds as winter arrives.”
The bald eagles, the department said, are following their food.
#4 Drone-catching eagles aren’t such a good idea after all,More info:digitaltrends
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but police in the Netherlands have now decided to retire its team of eagles that were trained to take down rogue drones.
The low-tech solution first hit the headlines in early 2016 when Dutch cops showed off the seemingly impressive skills of their feathered friends. Drones such as DJI’s Phantom 4 machine were clearly no match for the bird of prey, its sharp talons and equally sharp eyesight able to pinpoint and pluck a drone from the sky in a single, lightning-fast maneuver.
Except that it didn’t always work that way.
According to local media, the eagles didn’t always do what was expected of them, which presumably means they were occasionally distracted by other things happening around them during training sessions. You’re absolutely right, that’s not much good if you’re a cop trying to use an eagle to take down a drone flying precariously in a restricted area.
#3 Record eagle count at Lake Coeur d’Alene,More info:spokesman
A new record for bald eagles was set Wednesday during their annual gathering at Lake Coeur d’Alene to feed on spawning kokanee.
Carrie Hugo, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologist, counted 383 bald eagles in the Wolf Lodge Bay area, up from 314 counted on Nov. 30.
Before this record-setting eagle migration to the lake, Hugo’s record count was 273 on Dec. 29, 2011.
The eagles are lured each year to the Wolf Lodge Bay area of the lake where kokanee – a landlocked sockeye salmon – stack up to spawn and die from November into January.
Eagle watchers also have been flocking to the northeast corner of the lake south of Interstate 90, and they haven’t been disappointed. Hugo said that late in the afternoon, as the eagles began their night roost, she counted 53 birds in one small area.
Wednesday’s count included 326 adults with white heads and 56 juvenile eagles that won’t have the namesake “bald” head until about age 4. Wild bald eagles can live about 30 years.
#2 Squamish Eagle Count,More info:wildernesscommittee
#1 HOW TO BE A GOOD EAGLE NEIGHBOUR,More info:cbc
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