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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
A nesting pair of eagles raised a chick this spring and summer on Carr Island in Salisbury. The young bird has left the nest. A nesting pair of eagles raised a chick this spring and summer on Carr Island in Salisbury. The young bird has left the nest. (Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife) Carr [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Bonita Springs is named in a lawsuit filed by three Bonita Bay residents unhappy new homes will be built near their homes and the city’s oldest eagle’s nest. Bonita Bay also is named in the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday. The suit asks for an emergency temporary restraining order on city-issued development orders that allow [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
After ospreys flocked to several of the nesting towers Verizon built in Monmouth and Ocean counties last year, the company is providing funding for the construction of four more such towers in the state. The announcement was made Thursday (Oct. 23) at the dedication of the latest nesting tower, built in Ocean City. Mayor Salvatore [...]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
They are more at home feeding on carcasses in the middle of the desert – so a Black Country woman was more than a little surprised to see a giant vulture perched on top of a neighbour’s house. Busy preening itself on a rooftop in Scholar’s Walk, Rushall, the bird was photographed by shocked resident [...]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Representatives from Save Our American Raptors in Chattanooga, TN will be at the Huntsville Botanical Garden on Friday, October 10th, 2008. John and Dale Stokes will be presenting 3 owls, a Bald Eagle, a Red-Tailed Hawk, an American Kestrel, a Harris’ Hawk and a Black Vulture. Weather permitting; several of the birds will take to [...]
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
This is the latest news about this unfortunate bald eagles. Hopefully the Zoo’s staff manage to find her. Bald eagle escapes from zoo aviary in South Texas BROWNSVILLE — A bald eagle has escaped from a South Texas zoo’s aviary. It was last seen about two blocks from the zoo Thursday, when it disappeared over [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
I found this news article during searching for some information about bird of prey… seem like reintroduction of sea eagles will also get some serious complain from some other group of people… here is the article (originally from telegraph.co.uk) Independent inquiry into reintroduction of sea eagles By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Last Updated: 7:01pm BST [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
This morning when I search for some news, I found this article in the web… very nice article so I think it is good to share in the blog… the article will give some some view about the important of birds to the environment.. and for some hopefully they can value birds of prey more [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
I found this news in the nets… A very good news indeed for the conservation of the species. Kudos to the Zoos.. ******* Baby vulture overlooked in giraffe frenzy A Eurasian black vulture chick has hatched at The Living Desert — the only such chick to hatch in captivity this year in the United States, [...]
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
September 12, 2008 By Louis Porter Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – A pair of bald eagles have successfully nested and raised young in Vermont for the first time in three decades. “It’s fantastic news. It is something we have been waiting for for a long time,” said John Austin, director of wildlife for the Vermont [...]
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