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Just having turned 90, it occurs to me that I’ve been working with golden eagles over 60-plus, years and it continues to be an adventure. I started reading about them in William L. Finley and Herman T. Bohlman’s great bird books in the late ’30s. I also recall back in the ’50s, when the U.S. […]
Central Oregon has the perfect habitat for eagles and other natural treasures. Here are some sites to check out the local flora and fauna. The American bald eagle—once almost extinct in this part of the U.S.—has returned, and can be seen just about any place in the state. There are now over 400 active nests […]
England: Birthplace of Shakespeare and The Beatles, home of Parliament and the Tower of London, but there are no longer any golden eagles living there. Who’d have thought, with all the hard work of the Royal Society for the Preservation of Birds (RSPB), that they’d lose the magnificent bird of prey so steeped in the […]
The Central Oregon country is blessed with people who are always ready to pitch in, and “get the job done!” That’s why the free cam streaming the only life-and-times of a golden eagle nest is up and running again this year: www.GoldenEagleCam.com. As anyone who has set up this kind of system knows, it ain’t […]
Closure of certain public lands for the protection of wildlife is an absolute necessity. Nowhere have we seen it more plainly than in the Millican off-road vehicle (ORV) playground. When Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologists discovered off-road machines were literally running all over some of the best Sage Grouse nesting habitat in that huge […]
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