2010-03-27_NativePrideDancers
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Archive for March, 2010
Golden Eagle Hunting a Whitetail
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[cid:3352296323_2144551] Photo Credit to David Fredrickson. The photo was taken in Buffalo County WI in January 2010. Scott Mehus, Golden Eagle Expert at the National Eagle Center, has observed golden eagles in our area regularly going after fox and gray squirrels, eastern cottontails, and wild turkeys. Mehus has witnessed them going after white-tailed deer occasionally. These are typically younger birds who are desperate to catch a meal. Unfortunately Scott is not a photographer so he had no proof of them going after deer in our area to show people.
“The golden eagle going after the very frightened looking deer is approximately two years of age,” said Mehus.
GOLDEN EAGLE TO BE RELEASED WITH SATELLITE TRANSMITTER
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GOLDEN EAGLE TO BE RELEASED WITH SATELLITE TRANSMITTER
At 12:30pm, on March 25th, 2010, the National Eagle Center and Audubon Minnesota are happy to announce that they will be releasing a golden eagle with a satellite-linked radio tracking device. The release will take place near Fairchild, Wisconsin,(southeast of Eau Claire) near to the place where the bird was recovered. Seeing the apparently injured bird on Highway 10, a concerned citizen notified the local DNR warden who transported the bird to White Pine Wildlife Rehabilitation Center near Fall Creek, Wisconsin. Since March 9th, 2010 this adult female golden eagle has been undergoing rehabilitation at The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine. This release is part of an on-going research project investigating wintering golden eagles in the bluff land region.
The Golden Eagle Research Project aims to better understand the biology and management needs of this population of golden eagles and works with landowners and the public to educate and encourage appropriate habitat conservation and restoration in the Mississippi River Valley. By releasing a golden eagle known to use this area as winter habitat with a satellite transmitter, researchers hope to learn more about the possible migration routes and breeding areas for this population of golden eagles. With these goals in mind, researchers plan to trap and release up to six golden eagles with radio tracking devices over the course of the three-plus year project.
According to Scott Mehus of the National Eagle Center, volunteer observers recorded nearly 100 golden eagles in the coulees and bluffs in the Mississippi River valley in Minnesota, Wisconsin and northeast Iowa during the 2010 Wintering Golden Eagle Survey. “This wintering population”, says Mark Martell of Audubon Minnesota, “apparently does not mix with the much larger and better known population of wintering and breeding bald eagles found in the same area.” The breeding origin of these wintering golden eagles is unknown, and little is understood about their migration routes and habitat use during the winter.
The National Eagle Center and Audubon Minnesota released a golden eagle in March, 2009 with a satellite-linked radio tracking device. You can follow that bird, nicknamed ‘Whitey’, at Audubon Minnesota (mn.audubon.org
The Golden Eagle Research Project is under the partnership of the National Eagle Center and Audubon Minnesota, with support from Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources, as well as United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Winona District and the Schmidt Foundation.
