By Monte Sonnenberg
Simcoe Reformer
Friday, May 10, 2013; 4:58:13 EDT

JARVIS - The wind energy company Nextera suffered a public relations setback last fall when it dismantled a tree containing an eagle’s nest near Fisherville.

With the permission of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Nextera did the deed at dawn on a November morning. The nest was a recent addition to the neighbourhood and was located where three wind turbines were ready to go.

By time the tree was down, a large, angry crowd had gathered. The OPP attended to keep an eye on things. The mating pair that had been displaced also watched from some nearby trees. Over the next 48 hours, outrage spread across Ontario and beyond.

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WayneIndependant.com
Updated May. 15, 2013 @ 11:21 am

- As part of PPL support for wildlife habitat around Lake Wallenpaupack, Kipp Island will be unavailable for recreational activities through the end of July to protect a bald eagle nesting area.

 HAWLEY - As part of PPLsupport for wildlife habitat around Lake Wallenpaupack, Kipp Island will be unavailable for recreational activities through the end of July to protect a bald eagle nesting area. 

"For the past several years, bald eagles have successfully raised eaglets at Kipp Island, and this spring we received several reports of eagles on the island," said Paul Canevari, PPL community relations director for the Pocono region.

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• Photographer Igor Shpilenok spent seven months observing the bears
• The brown bears live at the Kronotsky Nature Reserve in Russia's far east
  

By Helen Lawson

PUBLISHED: 14:46 GMT, 17 March 2013 | UPDATED: 07:59 GMT, 18 March 2013

These brown bears are keen to play with discarded barrels - because they have developed a nose for aviation fuel.

The creatures sniff kerosene and gasoline from containers left in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve in the far east of Russia.

They take deep breaths for minutes at a time before digging a shallow hole and lying in a 'nirvana' position.

By Stephanie Joyce
Tuesday, May 07 2013

 
Eagles Feasting on Fish / Credit: Tim Moyer

 A flock of eagles descended on the Safeway parking lot last week, prompting police intervention.

Public Safety Director Jamie Sunderland says several people called in short succession on Thursday afternoon to report the melee.

Sunderland: “One of our officers went over there and there were 40 eagles sitting on, in and around several vehicles in the area.”

Sunderland says the eagles were feasting on garbage bags of fish product in the bed of a pickup truck. Public Safety contacted the truck owner:

Sunderland: “Who confirmed they did have a bunch of fillets in the car, and they were trying to get rid of it, but there were so many eagles that they were, I think, somewhat alarmed to go near the vehicle, because it was just being swarmed by eagles.”

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msnNOW
May 15, 2013

Some consider it the one of the Sophie's Choices of environmentalism: birds or green energy. Of the nearly 600,000 birds that are killed by the massive wind farm turbines each year, almost 15 percent of them — 83,000 — are believed to be hawks, falcons and eagles.

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By Neil A. Case
Monday, May 13, 2013 12:00 am
Updated: 6:57 am, Mon May 13, 2013.

 
Over the past three decades, bald eagles have increased in number across
the United States, and it is no longer an endangered species. Many factors
have contributed to that bit of good news.

“I think I saw a bald eagle. Is that possible?”

An adult bald eagle is unmistakable, but 30 years ago, when I was asked that question, eagles were rare in Indiana and in most other states. The bald eagle was an endangered species. So when someone saw an eagle and told me about it, it was as if they wanted me to confirm it for them. Or speaking defensively or even belligerently they’d tell me, “I saw a bald eagle,” obviously expecting me to tell them they couldn’t have, that they must have been mistaken.

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By Martha Kang and Liam Moriarty
Monday, May 13, 2013 15:01 AM

Credit Philip Maser / Heron Habitat Helpers

A great blue heron is seen building a nest at Commodore Park.

The great blue heron is one of Washington’s most iconic birds, as is the bald eagle. Now, it seems eagle attacks on heron nests are driving herons to abandon the largest colony in Seattle. And volunteers are asking local residents to help them figure out where the herons have gone.

For more than a decade, Pam Cahn has monitored the dozens of heron nests at Kiwanis Ravine near Discovery Park in northwest Seattle. The volunteer citizen-scientist has kept track of eggs laid, chicks hatched and fledglings flown, then sent the data to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife for record-keeping.

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