The Bemidji Pioneer
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Mon, May 13, 2013 - 7:00pm

 
Two adult bald eagles locked talons in mid-air Sunday over Duluth International Airport and crashed
to the ground when they couldn't separate. (Courtesy Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)

DULUTH -- Two adult bald eagles made an unplanned landing on the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport on Sunday.

The two birds had locked talons in mid-air and couldn’t get separated before they crashed to the concrete, said Randy Hanzal, a conservation officer with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Both birds survived the fall but remained entangled.

“Their talons were embedded in each other very deeply,” Hanzal said.

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by Ted Williams
May 7, 2013 

Today 234 California condors are living
in the wild, 194 of them captive bred.

Today 234 birds are living in the wild (194 of them captive bred), but the prognosis for the species is scarcely brighter than in 1982; they’re being poisoned. When lead bullets strike bone they tend to splinter, impregnating meat and entrails with toxic fragments, any one of which can kill a condor. All manner of carrion-eating birds and mammals feast on the poisoned gut piles left when hunters field dress game.

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This brings a whole new meaning to being "live on cam"

CBC News  Posted: May 10 2013

The two newest residents of an Edmonton inner-city homeless shelter are settling in to raise a family.

Two sparrows are setting up home inside a security camera at the Boyle Street Community Services.

"The camera hadn't been functioning for a couple of days," said spokesman Lance Beswick. "When we turned it on, we saw the face of the sparrow peering out at us."

Story with Video here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/05/10/edmonton-boyle-sparrow-nest.html

By Randy Conat
May 09, 2013 1:18 PM PDT
Updated: May 09, 2013 3:06 PM PDT  

 SAGINAW COUNTY (WJRT) - (05/09/13) - Dozens of bald eagles call the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge home. When a young eagle was spotted recently in a nest there, she was scheduled for a medical check-up.

It's not easy to give an eaglet a physical. For starters, the "waiting room" is a nest about 70 feet above ground. Even though U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Jeremy Moore is a certified tree climber, it took him nearly an hour to reach the young patient.

"They're not thrashing around. They're fairly calm. I try to keep my movements to a minimum," Moore said.

He gently placed the eaglet in a cloth bag and lowered it to the ground where two other biologists began the physical exam. All the time, two parents perched in a nearby tree, keeping an eye on their offspring.

"They're not defensive birds. They don't attack. So it's hard to gauge how upset they are. This pair was particularly calm," said Dave Best, a retired biologist who volunteered for Thursday's research project.

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