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All Three Eaglets Are Now Banded                                Posted by: rlukei | 2010/05/05               


The three eaglets at Norfolk Botanical Garden were removed from their nest today by Dr Bryan Watts, Director of  The Center for Conservation Biology, with assistance from Tim Nuckols and Nate Jones from Nuckols Tree Care. The eaglets were placed in a duffle bag and lowered one at a time to Libby Mojica, Eagle Research Biologist. Once all three were on the ground, the two youngest had bands placed on both legs, a USGS numbered band on the right leg and a purple band on the left leg that identifies the eaglet as being from the Chesapeake Bay region. They were weighed and measurements taken to compare to norms for their age. Both the youngest and middle chick were identified as being of male gender.
The oldest eaglet had been banded (NC) on March 31st.  The weight and measurements for this eaglet were in between the norms for male and female, so for the time being its gender will be considered unknown. Libby Mojica then fitted NC, now named Camellia for tracking purposes, with a 70 gram satellite tracking  transmitter. Camellia now has her own web page at http://www.wildlifetracking.org/index.shtml?tag_id_74435 (http://www.wildlifetracking.org/index.shtml?tag_id_74435).

Oldest – banded NC – #0679-01370 weighed 3705 grams (8+ lbs)

Middle – banded ND – #0679-01371 weighed 3260 grams (7 1/4 lbs)

Youngest – banded NE – #0679-01372 weighed 3368 grams (7 1/2 lbs)

http://www.wvec.com/news/Eagle-Banding-92895344.html (http://www.wvec.com/news/Eagle-Banding-92895344.html)  Story and video

NORFOLK -- The eaglets at Norfolk Botanical Garden are about two months old.

On Wednesday, the little ones were ID banded and the oldest, named Camellia, had a transmitter fitter to her.

It was a real team effort by folks at the Garden, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the Center for Conservation Biology and Nuckols Tree Service.

The three eaglets weigh nearly eight pounds. (http://s18.rimg.info/a73b45cdea667b881f947713c025f768.gif) (http://smiles.int-world.com/smile.152582.html)

Unfortunately, even though Kris G's link is correct, the Wildlife tracking site (http://www.wildlifetracking.org/) is designed so that it just kicks you to the home page.  Click the <Search> button on the menu bar, and enter <74435> into the first field on the Search page to come to Camellia's page.