April 2011
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Eagle Cam Chicks at Norfolk Botanical Garden Get...
VDGIF video captures month-old bald eagle chicks being removed from their 80-foot-high perch and lowered to the ground, where biologists from the Center for Conservation Biology attached bands to their legs, and assessed their overall health before returning them safely to the nest. This video was shot just 5 days before the eaglets’ mother was struck and killed by an airplane at the...
Eaglets Being Removed From Nest
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has confirmed that the female of the eagle pair nesting at Norfolk Botanical Garden was killed by an airplane strike yesterday morning. VDGIF wildlife biologists, acting on concerns that the adult male will not be able to provide sufficient food for the three five-week-old eaglets, determined that the birds should be removed from the...
Female Eagle Struck by Plane
This morning an adult bald eagle was struck and killed by an incoming airplane at Norfolk International Airport. It is believed that this bird was the female of the nesting pair from Norfolk Botanical Garden (NBG). The strike occurred sometime between 8:30 and 8:50 a.m. These eagles were well known through the Norfolk Botanical Garden Eagle Cam provided by the Virginia Department of Game and...
Supper
After spending the afternoon resting following their banding (check the CCB blog for details), the young birds got enjoy supper brought in by the female.
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Growing Up
The three young eaglets have certainly changed from the tiny fluffy white chicks that hatched over a month ago.
The chicks are well on their way to growing into their juvenile plumage, with a coat of brown feathers that they will have when they leave the nest. In this photo we can see the chicks lined up from youngest to oldest (the youngest chick on the left and the eldest on the right). You...
