Sentences with phrase «bald eagle population»

John Murawski — The Charlotte Observer — August 31, 2012 Troubles keep mounting for a proposed wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that already faces questions about whether it will harm the local bald eagle population.

Troubles keep mounting for a proposed wind farm in Eastern North Carolina that already faces questions about whether it will harm the local bald eagle population.

The golden eagle replaced the bald eagle and began to feed on feral pigs following the decimation of the local bald eagle population due to DDT exposure in the 1950s — the bald eagle would have deterred the golden eagle from settling on the islands while it subsisted on fish.

Early in our service, Dr Hess developed a surgery to help Bald Eagles and other birds of prey overcome a lethal foot disease that was ravaging the population at a time when the Bald Eagle population was struggling to survive.

Though the states bald eagle population has been steadily increasing since the late 1970s, the birds havent shown a fondness for urban real estate, preferring to nest in forested areas along the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.

A pipeline spill could also undo efforts to restore the bald eagle population in the area, he said.

Continuing threats to bald eagle populations include lead poisoning from ammunition in hunter - shot prey, collisions with motor vehicles and stationary structures, and development - related destruction of shoreline nesting, perching, roosting and foraging habitats.

The population is reproductively, geographically, biologically, and behaviorally distinct from all other bald eagle populations, since no other bald eagle population occupies habitat so hot and dry... no other population of bald eagles will move in if this population disappears, and that will result in a significant gap in the overall bald - eagle range.

when in fact it does not cause spikes to Bald Eagle populations (or something else).

Not exact matches

And even though the bald eagle has made an allegedly miraculous post-DDT population comeback, the malingering softy clings to the endangered list.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

At 12:30 p.m., Schumer will announce a major push to support Orleans County's sport fishing industry and protect local fish populations, Bald Eagle Marina, 1033 Lakeland Beach Rd., Kendall.

«The virus just swept through the bird population at the zoo, killing crows, flamingos, even bald eagles,» McNamara says.

The problem drove bald eagles, our national symbol, not to mention peregrine falcons and other bird populations, to the brink of extinction, with populations plummeting more than 80 percent.

In the mid-1960s fewer than 500 nesting pairs of bald eagles existed in the continental U.S.; today, thanks to the DDT ban and other conservation efforts, some 10,000 pairs of bald eagles inhabit the Lower 48 — that's a 20-fold population increase in just four decades!

Today it is a national wildlife refuge, home to bald eagles that feast on its prodigious prairie dog population.

The bald eagle was nearly extinct in the continental U.S. by the late 20th century, but the population has since stabilized, primarily due to habitat protection and a ban on DDT, an insecticide that weakened the birds» eggs so much that the eagles could not produce viable offspring.

It's natural for bald eagles to fly south during winter but a count is necessary because the bird's population is being closely watched.

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«Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eagle to the Channel Islands» is an incredible new film that chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breedBald Eagle to the Channel Islands» is an incredible new film that chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeEagle to the Channel Islands» is an incredible new film that chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breedbald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeeagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s from DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 birds on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeding.

Based upon information of population trends, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has listed the bald eagle a species of Least Concern and current data demonstrates that the population is presently increasing.

Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eagle to the Channel Islands This 13 - minute film chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breedBald Eagle to the Channel Islands This 13 - minute film chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeEagle to the Channel Islands This 13 - minute film chronicles the journey of the bald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breedbald eagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeeagle's recovery from disappearance on the Channel Islands in the 1960s due to DDT contamination, overhunting, and egg collecting to today's population of about 60 eagles on four Channel Islands, some that are successfully breeding.

By the late 1990s, breeding populations of bald eagles could be found throughout most of

We helped to halt one of several wind energy projects planned for the shores of Lake Erie, in one of the most significant bird migration corridors in the Western Hemisphere and home to a large Bald Eagle (shown) population.

Though the bald eagle as a species was removed from the endangered species list in 2007, unique populations, like the desert nesting eagles, remained due to their status as a «distinct population segment.»

In 2007 bald eagles were taken off the endangered species list and have an estimated population of over 100,000 — 50,000 of which are in Alaska alone.