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And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 156

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JUNE 22, 2011

Here’s a photo of a House Finch nest before the eggs hatch and the hatchlings start producing fecal sacs. This adult Bald Eagle politely moves away from the nest to defecate (watch out). The dark part is undigested feces. So how do nesting birds deal with the excrement of all those nestlings until they fledge?

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Bald Eagle Chickens Birds North America 248

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Steal and eat their eggs? It makes people feel like they have to choose sides, and who wants to choose sides between the noble bald eagle and the majestic great horned owl or whatever? Again, I know you’re just doing what you gotta do. Drag some other bird bodily out of a hollow tree and thrash the feathers off them?

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

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MAY 6, 2021

The White-tailed Eagle is one of the easiest birds to observe in Belgrade, Serbia (almost guaranteed). And with a wingspan slightly bigger than a Bald Eagle, it is really no wonder that almost every local eBird list contains a sighting of one to several birds. The post A Tale of Two Eagles appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Eggs Serbia 264

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 180

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JUNE 1, 2021

Bald Eagle, for example, is still said to be “formerly more widespread” though the range map shows expansion. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

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MAY 29, 2011

Friends of mine came home from those lakes with tales of Sandhill Cranes , Snowy Owls with eggs in the nest and others. A tantalizing report from them included a brown owl, the likely suspect a Short-eared Owl slightly north of its accepted range.

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Bald Eagle Iceland Owls North America 126

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JUNE 1, 2011

Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. If you find a young hawk or eagle out of the nest and it is covered in down and is unable to stand on its huge feet, it needs to get back in the nest. Once they are old enough to flop out of the nest, they have no desire to stay there.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

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JULY 6, 2019

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 122

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR. And that’s a recommendation from someone who has been to just one birding festival and tends to bird alone.). After years of birding, I now have a good sense of what I enjoy as a birder.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

qn Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Runner-up: The Bald Eagle that swooped around over the Big Gay Race in Minneapolis in October, which I didn’t get a picture of. It was all mushed up but you could still see its feathers. Has it been the Small Gay Race it might have picked off a couple of racers.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 192

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APRIL 15, 2014

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. All I see are their buts. Also written up here. The original paper is here.

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Birds Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines 185

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MARCH 30, 2015

Not the best shot but this Bald Eagle was distantly digiscoped as it circled over Willow Lake. The Snow Geese at Big Egg Marsh were fun to photograph as they landed on the field on Saturday. They must have irrupted further south and are now on their way back north. Keep those nyger socks out!

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Bald Eagle New York City Birds New York 190

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 215

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She’s described conservation successes in detail–the Bald Eagle, the Short-tailed Albatross, now protected in Japan. ” There are amazing stories here.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

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And, in a tree off to the right in that direction, I noticed a mass of stuff that resembled a Bald Eagle’s nest as much as any mass of stuff ever could, but of course, it was not a bald eagle nest. Eagles like their nests a bit farther from roads than that. Funny, that.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Coyotes Mississippi 179

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Taman Negara NP–Mutiara Resort.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Taman Negara NP–Mutiara Resort.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Taman Negara NP–Mutiara Resort.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 101

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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JULY 7, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100

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JUNE 2, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina. Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

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MARCH 3, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga. Wedge-tailed Eagle – Aquila audax. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Short-toed Snake-Eagle – Circaetus gallicus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina. Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga. Little Eagle – Hieraaetus morphnoides. Eastern Egg Rock.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

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MAY 6, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina. Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga. Little Eagle – Hieraaetus morphnoides. Golden Eagle – Aquila chrysaetos.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

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APRIL 7, 2018

Golden Eagle – Aquila chrysaetos. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Wedge-tailed Eagle – Aquila audax. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. 24 Mar 2018. 24 Mar 2018. 24 Mar 2018. 24 Mar 2018.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

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DECEMBER 4, 2021

ospreys are mostly right-“handed,” and carry their food, while flying, in one foot only, to fight off kleptoparasites like bald eagles with the other), and of detail, as well, of the process involved in taking that particular photograph. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird (e.g.,

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

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FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Greater Spotted Eagle – Clanga clanga. Wedge-tailed Eagle – Aquila audax. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Sacramento 100

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Black-breasted Snake-Eagle – Circaetus pectoralis. Brown Snake-Eagle – Circaetus cinereus. Changeable Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus limnaeetus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. 15 Feb 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

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JUNE 4, 2016

Big Egg Marsh. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Changeable Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus limnaeetus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Changeable Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus limnaeetus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina. Hai-Bar Nature Reserve.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 101

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JULY 2, 2016

Big Egg Marsh. Little Eagle – Hieraaetus morphnoides. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Changeable Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus limnaeetus. Gray-headed Fish-Eagle – Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus. Los Cartagos. 14 May 2016. Sandy Hook.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

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AUGUST 6, 2016

Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Changeable Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus limnaeetus. Black Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus tyrannus. Ornate Hawk-Eagle – Spizaetus ornatus. Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Lesser Spotted Eagle – Clanga pomarina. Hai-Bar Nature Reserve.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Black Eagle – Ictinaetus malaiensis. Blyth’s Hawk-Eagle – Nisaetus alboniger. Crested Serpent-Eagle – Spilornis cheela. Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle – Hieraaetus ayresii. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Martial Eagle – Polemaetus bellicosus. Taman Negara NP–Mutiara Resort.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100

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MARCH 5, 2011

Orlando is so rich in roadside and overhead birds that I kept a list of species seen from the car which ran to 30+ on the first morning and included a Bald Eagle nonchalantly sitting on a street lamp by a Target store. Boat-tailed Grackles count eggs and chicks as part of their diet and they were well represented here today.

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 117