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CHAT - Thursday, August 6, 2009; Let's look at the birds nests together!
Topic Started: Aug 6 2009, 05:17 AM (325 Views)
Topa Topa Hikers
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Up on Trickle Creek
Watercolor on Paper by Roderick MacIver
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Good morning, peeps! Lovely watercolour, Topa.

The whooping crane cam is presently showing two adults outside the pen as the chicks are inside. They are all preening in the early morning light.


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So we are watching the new airforce chicks in training for their big flight this fall..Cool...

" Through the CraneCam, you will be able to view Cohort Two go through their aircraft conditioning and training as they prepare for their first ever southward migration this coming Autumn. " OM
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Cruz in a Bag Tote Bag
buy one here * http://www.cafepress.com/iws_store.88062914

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One Planet, One You!
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eaglepedia revisited

July 28, 2007

We've all seen the "Gooney Bird" run, flap, and hop to get into the air and then watched it crash lands on its nose! The eagle has to end the flight slowly, first with slowing of the wing beats. As gravity begins to pull him down, he will move his wing to increase the surface area which makes more lift to slow him for the landing. While maneuvering his approach, the whole wing is moved slightly at the shoulders to increase the angle of landing making more lift as they slow down in their speed. This will stop the eagle from dropping too fast. The tail will be spread open and lowered to act as a brake. Landings are much harder than taking off!

http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Animals/inter...e/birds-01.html

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DISCLAIMER: Information here has been gathered in good faith from the internet and cannot be guaranteed to be totally accurate.
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cheryl thanks for posting the cam shots of the cranes - hooray! they are so beautiful!

eagleland - aaaaaah thanks Carole a look back

Topa - what an awesome watercolor .... wish I had a little artistic in me :(
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Oceans as Wilderness

"Fifty million buffalo once roamed the rolling green prairies of North America. Gunners reduced them to near extinction. Now, hunters are at work on the rolling blue prairies of the sea, and already, the big fish – including miracles like thousand-pound, warm-blooded bluefin tuna – are 90 percent gone. What we regret happening on land, may again happen in the sea. Those who care about wildlife should get to know about oceans." – Carl Safina, "Comes a Turtle, Comes the World," Patagonia


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by G. Bruce Knecht
Summer 2007


On the evening of August 6, 2003, an Australian patrol boat spotted an unidentified vessel near Heard Island, an uninhabited scrap of land halfway between Australia and South Africa, 900 miles north of Antarctica. Stephen Duffy, the Australian customs officer who was leading the patrol, knew what he was up against: a pirate vessel – loaded not with gold doubloons but fish. More specifically Patagonian toothfish, a prehistoric gray-black creature that can live for 50 years and grow to six feet in length.

For most of their existence, toothfish had thrived in near-frozen obscurity. That was before a little-known fish merchant in Los Angeles gave them an inaccurate but much more appealing name – Chilean sea bass – and chefs fell in love with a white flesh that seemed to accept every spice and hold up to every method of cooking. As toothfish became the top-selling fish at restaurants across America, fleets of industrialized fishing vessels – many of them pirates – set out to meet the burgeoning demand.

Duffy knew the waters surrounding Heard Island, 2,500 miles southwest of Australia, holds one of the world's largest remaining populations of toothfish. The Australian government has given two vessels permits to fish there, but many other vessels operate illegally. Using "longlines" that can stretch for a dozen miles and hold 15,000 baited hooks, a single vessel can harvest 20 or more tons of fish a day: the marine equivalent of strip-mining.

Toothfish, of course, are not the only species that has been decimated by industrialized fishing. Indeed, over the past 50 years, the populations of many of the most desirable fish have been reduced by more than 90 percent. It's an environmental calamity so great that it's difficult to accept, in part because supermarkets seem to have lots of fish and also because the dwindling stocks of fish from the Northern Hemisphere have been replaced by toothfish and other species that live in faraway places.
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Topa, thanks for keeping us informed. At least then if there is an opportunity I will be able to speak up. I was thinking of all the fish they serve on cruise ships. If I see Chilean sea bass on the menu I will without doubt ask to speak to the head chef.

Carole, such a dear collage of all the eaglets from 2009. Thank you very much for posting the daily pictures of the eaglets over the days and months. It has been a pleasure to be able to see them change and grow. Safe journeys to all of them.

Well, I am not an early bird but one can view the 6 am CST training sessions of Cohort 2 (depending on weather) on the whooper cam. Guess I should set the alarm .....
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CDN, I found that interesting too because all of a sudden
Chilean Sea Bass was available in our fish market.
I thought mmmmm....??? now I know they are lying to us..

I'm just going to have to eat a lot more brown rice for now on...

6 am I think that is 4 am California time, too early for me? Shucks,
I'd like to see flight training. I'm sure they will video it for us.. :Zz:
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http://video.dot.ca.gov/

Very fun website! See live freeway web cams all over California, including 3 in Santa Barbara.
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Cheryl - More computer issues. I can't get a picture on the Whooper cam. No problem with the nests which are also Wildearth, don't understand it. It worked fine last week and all of sudden it's a no-go. :bam:
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Carole - I have the whooper cam working right now at 3:32 pm our time. Not sure about the past couple of hours because we were out.
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Speaking of interesting websites....The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission updates this site every year :o

Eagle Nest Locator

If you live in Florida, put in your zipcode and it will tell you where any nests are located. You can also imput the radius you would like (ie: 19 miles, 5 miles etc.) and it will show you all of them in that area :D

Now the burning question is....why are they doing this? :huh:
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Deleted...duplicate post
Edited by Artsy Mom, Aug 6 2009, 02:58 PM.
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