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April 8, 2009 in Outdoors
Live webcams focus on live action of eagles rearing their eaglets
Bald eagles nesting on Vancouver Island
The Spokesman-Review
Bald eagles are thriving in the Northwest after being removed from the U.S. Endangered Species list in 2007.
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Internet surfers around the world are flocking to the Hancock Wildlife Foundation Web site to watch live video of a pair of bald eagles rearing their young in a nest near Victoria, British Columbia.
Cameras mounted near the nest first caught the mother laying eggs in February, and then revealed the three eaglets hatching.
Now viewers can tune in to see them grow and ultimately fledge this summer.
Check it out here.
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Rich Landers on April 08 at 4:26 p.m.
The eagle in the nest got off the two eggs for about 30 minutes Wednesday afternoon to feed on a duck carcass its mate brought in for dinner. The carcass, minus the breast meat, was still in the nest late Wedneday afternoon, while the eagle snuggled back on the eggs.
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Rich Landers on April 09 at 10:17 a.m.
When the birds hatch, use the close-up cam option to study them. Each eaglet has a pip tooth at the end of its beak to use in breaking free from inside the shell. Once the eaglet is out, the tooth will dry up and fall off.
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Rich Landers on April 15 at 1:45 p.m.
Chicks have hatched! Not yet in the Delta nest that our link keys to. Go from that site to Live Cameras and click on the Sydney Old Nest webcam. Two chicks have hatched in the last two days and I've been watching the feeding. Drama is building. It appears the first chick to hatch is dominant and getting most of the food.
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Rich Landers on May 06 at 2:13 p.m.
The Bad News; The eggs we originally were watching were unviable and the nesting failed.
The Good News: We've switched web cams to the the Sidney, BC nest, where THREE eaglets are being raised.
Not quite 1% of wilderness eagle nests produce 3 chicks,BC experts say.
The egg-hatching sequence was 3 days apart – same as laying.
It is believed that this plan of the eggs hatching in sequence allows the first hatched chick to dominate the food and ensure at least one chick survives if food is in short supply. However, these eagles are good providers and all three chicks are still alive, although one looks smaller. As would be expected, the larger dominant chick has been demanding food first in the natural feeding dominance.
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