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NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) — Another season of life will soon begin for a set of feathered parents after a female bald eagle laid an egg on the popular Southwest Florida Eagle Cam.
The Southwest Florida Eagle Cam is a website featuring live streaming webcams trained on a bald eagle nest, which sits 60 feet above the ground, in a Slash Pine tree in North Fort Myers, Florida. The live streaming website shows the parent eagles and their family as they build and restore the nest, mate, lay eggs, and challenge the natural ...
Data curated from bald eagle cams between 2006 to 2016 shows one of the longest incubation periods for a clutch of eggs was a little over 40 days, with the average time being 36.5 days.
California's bald eagles were nearly wiped out in the 1970s, but now there are more than 1,000 spread among 41 of the state’s 58 counties, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Bald eagles can live up to 30 years in the wild, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, but chicks can have high mortality rates due to issues with humans, food scarcity or disease.
The bald eagle is placed in the genus Haliaeetus (), and gets both its common and specific scientific names from the distinctive appearance of the adult's head. Bald in the English name is from an older usage meaning "having white on the face or head" rather than "hairless", referring to the white head feathers contrasting with the darker body. [4]
A pair of bald eagles named Jackie and Shadow watch over their eggs in a nest high atop a tree. It may not look like it, but we can now witness the lovingly contentious squabble of modern domestic ...
SOUTH BEND — They went last year without hatching any young American bald eagles. But in the past week the eagles in the nest at St. Patrick’s County Park have laid at least two eggs. Eagles ...