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 Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:01 am
Quote: Wildlife authorities have found the first bald eagle nest in the city in more than 200 years and hope the occupants will produce offspring, state officials said. The nest "demonstrates the resilience of this species and its apparent growing tolerance to human activity," said Dan Brauning, a supervisor with the state Game Commission, in a statement Friday. Officials are not disclosing the nest's exact location, to avoid disturbing it, but it is being closely monitored, the commission said. "We don't know if the nest will result in the pair successfully breeding and laying eggs yet, but we are very hopeful," Brauning said. The state began a campaign to re-establish the eagle population in 1983, when only three nesting pairs remained in Pennsylvania. Officials said last year that the number was higher than 100. Bald eagles were upgraded from endangered to threatened status by the federal government in 1995 and by the state a decade later. A Bald Eagle nest: found in Philedelphia! It's the first one they found in over 200 years! That's so cool! Source- www.comcast.net/news/science/index.jsp?cat=SCIENCE&fn=/2007/03/18/613568.html
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:09 pm
I wonder why Bald Eagles havnen't been there in over 200 years
That's cool
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:01 pm
Interesting that we have one right outside our house...
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:37 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:38 pm
You never knew that Post more than 2 words each post
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:26 pm
Sounds interesting! It's a small yet bright glimmer of hope that the Bald Eagle population would one day become an unendangered species. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:09 pm
That's cool. I'm glad the bald eagle is making a comeback.
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:35 pm
They are majestic aren't they?
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:37 pm
this is the one across the street 
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:11 am
The Bald Eagle, the national bird, is the only bird unique to North America.
Did you know that at one time the word bald meant white. Makes sence!
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I'm glad to hear that the bald eagle is getting closer to being delisted as threatned species.
The species became threatned mostly due to becoming victims of habitat lost to agriculture and development, lead poisoning from buckshot and fishing sinkers ingested through the birds and fish they ate, and the chemicals of modern life - mercury, PCBs, dioxin, and especially DDT, which made eggshells thin and weak. Their numbers had plummeted from an estimated 100,000 during the American Revolution to fewer than 1,000.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:44 am
I grew up in SC and we had a lot of bald eagles around where I lived. It was always neat to see them flying around or perched in the tops of pine trees. I am glad that they are returning to a "normal" population level and hope that this will continue even if they are removed from the threatened species list.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:03 pm
I think the only place I've seen a bald Eagle is in a Zoo.
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I absolutly hate to see birds in cages.
Any animal in cages is terrible, but birds, I feel for them the most.
Simply because I am so amazed and in love with their gift of flight
that I feel it's such a great shame, such a shame to have to clip their wings and take away that wonder.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:42 pm
Emily`s_Gone_Mad The Bald Eagle, the national bird, is the only bird unique to North America.
Did you know that at one time the word bald meant white. Makes sence!
XP
I'm glad to hear that the bald eagle is getting closer to being delisted as threatned species.
The species became threatned mostly due to becoming victims of habitat lost to agriculture and development, lead poisoning from buckshot and fishing sinkers ingested through the birds and fish they ate, and the chemicals of modern life - mercury, PCBs, dioxin, and especially DDT, which made eggshells thin and weak. Their numbers had plummeted from an estimated 100,000 during the American Revolution to fewer than 1,000. I thought it was just Hunting...
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