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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #210 on: November 29, 2015, 02:05:11 AM »

BONUS!!!

New video of brothers releasing the eagle they freed from a trap!

https://www.facebook.com/michael.fletcher.984/videos/10153767108590948/?pnref=story
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #211 on: November 29, 2015, 02:11:08 AM »

Kay from SOAR releases a bald eagle!

A slow motion video of the eagle release on 23 November 2015. An adult female bald eagle was admitted from Greene County on 19 September 2015. Her vision was limited on admit, she had bumps and bruises, and was missing a few primary feathers. She received antibiotic eye drops and time in the flight pen. Her vision improved within a couple weeks and new feathers have or are growing in. Time to go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0a1Anm8qw&feature=em-subs_digest-g
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #212 on: November 29, 2015, 02:26:04 PM »

BONUS!!!

New video of brothers releasing the eagle they freed from a trap!

https://www.facebook.com/michael.fletcher.984/videos/10153767108590948/?pnref=story



LOL T40 - a bonus for sure!  This last video of the Eagle flying off as it's released by the brothers who freed it from the hunter's trap, along with the selfie of the Eagle with the brothers (in your post above), was featured this morning on the NBC "Today Show" with a bit of the back story.  Loved seeing it!  Thanks!   :)
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #213 on: November 30, 2015, 10:16:47 AM »

A bright idea to protect local wildlife from cats

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-bright-idea-local-wildlife-cats.html

No cat that has ever owned me would stand for this! Whatever happened to "belling the cat?"

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #214 on: December 02, 2015, 09:09:10 AM »

Hanover eagle cam ready for second season - thanks to a FB page of eagleholics1  :D

http://www.eveningsun.com/story/life/2015/11/30/second-eagle-cam-installed-codorus/76382680/
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #215 on: December 02, 2015, 09:25:13 AM »

Taylor Swift's 'Bird Incident' Is Just the Latest Example of How Filming Disrupts Birds

https://www.audubon.org/news/taylor-swifts-bird-incident-just-latest-example-how-filming-disrupts-birds
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #216 on: December 02, 2015, 09:25:58 AM »

Authorities want answers after pelicans, seagulls found dead near shotgun shells in Neptune Beach

http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2015-12-01/story/authorities-looking-answers-after-pelicans-and-seagulls-found-dead-near
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #217 on: December 03, 2015, 02:34:50 AM »

Setting a Table for the Birds - and keep it open all winter long

http://www.bayweekly.com/articles/good-living/article/setting-table-birds

Brothers free eagle from trap

http://www.thesudburystar.com/2015/11/26/brothers-free-eagle-from-trap



Update: The National Audubon Society weighs in on this story.

Two Brothers and a Bald Eagle: Epic Selfie or Epic Fail?: After removing an eagle from a trap, these men celebrated with a selfie. Here?s why they should have left the bird alone.

https://www.audubon.org/news/two-brothers-and-bald-eagle-epic-selfie-or-epic-fail
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #218 on: December 03, 2015, 02:41:40 AM »

Young bald eagle soars to freedom in Brookgreen Gardens after rehabilitation for avian pox virus. Sweet juvie!

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article47613305.html
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #219 on: December 03, 2015, 02:47:36 AM »

Wildlife Wednesday: Bald Eagle Release. Nice TV video of a juvie treated for West Nile Virus.

http://www.wearecentralpa.com/central-pa-live/wildlife-wednesday-bald-eagle-released
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #220 on: December 03, 2015, 02:51:13 AM »

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #221 on: December 03, 2015, 02:55:48 AM »

18-pound, female, juvenile eagle hit by car healing after series of surgeries. Rehabber seeks donations.

http://www.menastar.com/news/article_0d2de600-994a-11e5-bb6a-7b4ac6f787fd.html
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« Reply #222 on: December 03, 2015, 03:02:45 AM »

Ruffled feathers: Proposed resort near East Coast aerie for bald eagles stirs angry opposition. This is an update from a previous story and was carried by a half-dozen news publications yesterday.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/travel/ruffled-feathers-proposed-resort-near-east-coast-aerie-for-bald-eagles-stirs-angry-opposition-359465881.html
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #223 on: December 03, 2015, 11:26:43 AM »

Setting a Table for the Birds - and keep it open all winter long

http://www.bayweekly.com/articles/good-living/article/setting-table-birds

Brothers free eagle from trap

http://www.thesudburystar.com/2015/11/26/brothers-free-eagle-from-trap



Update: The National Audubon Society weighs in on this story.

Two Brothers and a Bald Eagle: Epic Selfie or Epic Fail?: After removing an eagle from a trap, these men celebrated with a selfie. Here?s why they should have left the bird alone.

https://www.audubon.org/news/two-brothers-and-bald-eagle-epic-selfie-or-epic-fail

This Audubon article may be technically correct, but using "epic fail" in the story headline is an overreach.  The two Canadians who rescued that trapped Bald Eagle saved its life.  They had good in their hearts and helped more than harmed.  Sure, the Eagle could've suffered sudden death from the stress, and could've needed treatment if had been taken to a rehabber, but it was surely going to die, and likely in some grizzly way, if it had not been found and freed.  Even trained rescuers and rehabbers have their pictures taken when rescuing and transporting and releasing birds and other animals.  The article is right to point out the proper way to handle finding a bird that is injured, but the writer could've found a lot more to gripe about the causes of injury to raptors, and missed an opportunity to use that rescue to point out the plight that raptors and other birds face, including being harmed and killed by baited traps.
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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #224 on: December 04, 2015, 12:44:36 AM »

Oldest known seabird is back at Midway Atoll near Hawaii.

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-oldest-seabird-midway-atoll-hawaii.html

Update! - What a story!

Wisdom, the World?s Oldest Banded Bird, Surprises Everyone With Yet Another Egg

http://www.care2.com/causes/wisdom-the-worlds-oldest-banded-bird-surprises-everyone-with-yet-another-egg.html

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring