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Andersen Strives to be 'Good Next-Door Neighbor' to new Bald Eagle Family

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By Shawn Hogendorf
April 23, 2013

Last week two Bald Eaglets were hatched in a nest right next door to the Andersen Windows facility in Bayport. On Earth Day, employees learned how to be good neighbors, in the hopes that the raptor family hangs around for years to come. 


 

Andersen Windows has new neighbors—of the raptor variety.

Of all the places along the St. Croix River Valley that a bald eagle family could build a home, they chose to nest in a tree right next door to Andersen’s factory in Bayport.

Just this month, two eaglets were hatched, and according to Susan Roeder of Andersen, raptor experts say the bald eagles could be living there for years to come.

“Since they're going to be next-door neighbors, Andersen wanted to start things off on the right foot,” Roeder said. “So we held a unique luncheon on Earth Day to teach employees how to be good neighbors to bald eagles.”

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Bald Eagles Rescued At Kennedy Space Center After Storm Blows Through

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Source: Bob Granath,

NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center

April 22, 2013
 
Image Caption: Becky Bolt, a wildlife ecologist with InoMedic Health Applications, Inc., holds one of the eaglets rescued on March 26.
Credit: InoMedic Health Applications/Russ Lowers
 
 NASA

When a strong thunderstorm recently blew through NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two eagles landed — falling to the ground along with their nest. Fortunately, ecologists at the spaceport, who take great care to track the birds and protect their habitat, stepped in and rescued the eaglets.

Kennedy is a nesting area for numerous bald eagles. Space center employees and visitors alike enjoy watching their majestic flights overhead. Besides being the national bird of the United States, bald eagles have been a popular image on a dozen mission patches for American human spaceflights.

“We do a survey of the eagle nesting areas about three times a year,” said Becky Bolt, a wildlife ecologist with InoMedic Health Applications Inc. “A couple of days after the big storm, we found three eagle nests had been blown to the ground. One had an eaglet standing in the nest. We then spotted another lying on the ground, about 100 yards away.” 

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Angry birds: Pair of eagles defy banishment in Southwest Alaska town

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By Jill Burke

Loren Holmes photo
For years, a pair of bald eagles in Unalaska have earned a notorious reputation for angry attacks on passersby. And even after the town destroyed their nests, these eagles are still resisting eviction efforts. 

 

On an island along Alaska's southern coastline, sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, the nation's largest fishing port is struggling with an unhappy pair of dive-bombing bald eagles.

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Environmentalists welcome tower decision

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ABCNEWS
Posted Wed. Apr 24, 2013 9:16 a.m. AEST

Part of the National Broadband Network rollout in Tasmania has been delayed to accommodate the breeding season of a threatened sea eagle.

Conservationists are celebrating the decision of Sorell Council in southern Tasmania to place restrictions on the construction of a wireless internet tower near the Carlton River.

Read more:

www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-24/environmentalists-welcome-tower-decision/4648174

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Bald eagle chick first born in Pittsburgh in more than 200 years

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By Mary Ann Thomas    

Published: Monday, April 15, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013 

A bald eagle chick hatched in a nest in Hays, making it the first one born in Pittsburgh in more than 200 years, bird experts said Sunday.

The chick's parents soar above an unlikely landscape of a scrap recycling yard and two sets of active railroad lines, along a segment of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail near the Monongahela River.

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