News tagged with eagles
Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds
May 16, 2009 |
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(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.
Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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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 ...
Decline in Alaskan sea otters affects bald eagles' diet
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Oct 03, 2008 |
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Sea otters are known as a keystone species, filling such an important niche in ocean communities that without them, entire ecosystems can collapse. Scientists are finding, however, that sea otters can have even farther-reaching ...
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Scientists are learning more about big birds from feathers
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Catching adult eagles for research purposes is no easy task, but a Purdue University researcher has found a way around the problem, and, in the process, gathered even more information about ...
Bald eagles settle in U.S. winter locales
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Jan 06, 2008 |
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Thousands of bald eagles have gathered in their wintering haunts along the Mississippi and other rivers in the central United States.
Feds say eagles no longer are endangered
Feb 15, 2006 |
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The U.S. government wants to remove eagles from the endangered species list, noting the population has gone from 413 breeding pairs in 1963 to 7,066 today.
Ban on feeding eagles considered in Alaska
Dec 26, 2005 |
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For decades, eagles have been fed in Homer, Alaska, and the eagle population has soared, as has the tourist traffic, but some hope the feeding will stop.
Fears of eagle injury from wind farm
Jan 28, 2006 |
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds fears wind farms may harm newly thriving white-tailed eagles in Scotland.
New eagle crowding nesting eagle pair
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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A pair of bald eagles nesting in Virginia's Norfolk Botanical Garden are used to being visited by people, but now must deal with an interloping female eagle.
Wind farm cuts eagle population
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Jun 23, 2006 |
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Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says a wind farm off the Norwegian coast has reduced the population of Europe's largest eagle.
Golden eagle found poisoned in Scotland
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Jun 18, 2006 |
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Police and conservationists in Scotland are investigating the poisoning of a golden eagle, one of Britain's rarest birds, The Guardian reported.
First bald eagle chick in 50 years hatches
Apr 14, 2006 |
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After years trying to bring bald eagles back to the Channel Islands, wildlife experts announced the first unaided hatching in more than 50 years.
Bald eagles may no longer be endangered
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Feb 01, 2007 |
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Experts say bald eagles are likely to be taken from the endangered species list as the U.S. government's Feb. 16 deadline for ruling on the birds approaches.
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