News tagged with bald eagles

Can we predict which species will be able to move far or fast enough to track changing climate?

As global temperatures rise, suitable sites for many plants and animals are shifting to cooler and higher ground. Can we predict which species will be able to move far or fast enough to keep up? A new study says the secrets ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dispatches from the edge of doom

Something strange happened in 1973. Republican president Richard Nixon -- who the year before had stated, "this is not the land of quotas and restrictions" -- signed the Endangered Species Act into law.

Biology / Ecology

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US eagle webcam becomes internet sensation

Cameras installed high in a tree in the US state of Iowa have made an internet sensation of a family of bald eagles, whose nest is streamed online live day and night.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Central Pennsylvania is a great place to watch migrating raptors

As raptors migrate over Pennsylvania this fall, the number of bald eagles among them is close to an all-time high, according to an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eagles not flying with doves in Alaska island fishing town

On a recent weekday, Allana Gustafson was pushing an empty mail cart outside the Dutch Harbor post office in Alaska when she heard the beating of wings like heavy breathing behind her.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Bald eagle diet shift enhances conservation

An unprecedented study of bald eagle diet, from about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago to the present, will provide wildlife managers with unique information for reintroducing Bald Eagles to the Channel Islands ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bald eagles: an amazing comeback story

On a clear, cool fall morning, a bald eagle swoops in from its perch on a cliff overlooking Trinity Lake in Northern California.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Arizona's bald eagles may lose endangered status

The desert-nesting bald eagles of central Arizona are the only bald eagles in the United States still receiving protection as members of the endangered-species list.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

(AP) -- Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Webcam fans mourn Calif. bald eagle chick deaths

(AP) -- The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences

North America's biological field stations have long been home to a rich legacy of research results, scientists say, making them important places for serendipitous discoveries in the biological and environmental ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0