by Todd Corillo

April 25, 2013,  

A poisoned bald eagle returned to the wild in Virginia Beach Thursday to a cheering crowd at the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge.  The bird was one of six bald eagles found poisoned in Northampton County in March – it was the only one of the six to survive.  All were found between March 8 and March 14 on Seaside Road in Birdsnest.

The surviving eagle was rehabilitated at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro over the past two months.  Dr. Dave McRuer, Director of Veterinary Medicine at the Wildlife Center, released the eagle, seeing the silver lining in a sad situation.

“What is really nice is that at least one of them did make it and it was through the efforts of a lot of people who cared and supported the rehabilitation process,” Dr. McRuer explained.

As a crowd of onlookers cheered, McRuer counted to three before releasing the bird that soared into the sky above the wildlife refuge.

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The Associated Press
© April 26, 2013

Photo by (L. Todd Spencer | The Virginian-Pilot)

Dr. David McRuer with the Wildlife Center of Virginia releases a 4-year-old bald eagle that had been poisoned and rehabilitated at the Center. The eagle was released back int the wild on April 25, 2013 at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach, Va. 

RICHMOND

Rewards totaling $7,500 are being offered in hopes of finding those responsible for the deaths of five bald eagles on Virginia's Eastern Shore.  The eagles were found poisoned between March 8 and March 14 in Birdsnest in Northampton County.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it is offering a reward of $2,500 for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the birds' deaths. A $5,000 reward is being offered by The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust. 

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View 2 videos of the release of the one surviving eagle who was brought back to health by WCV:

Eagle Release Video 1

Eagle Release Video 2 

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. 

   

Credit Courtesy of Andersen Corporation

 

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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Source: Bob Granath,

NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center

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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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.

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.

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

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.