Touchdown -- Bald Eagle in Atascadero, California
by Darin Volpe
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Touchdown -- Bald Eagle in Atascadero, California
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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A young male Bald Eagle makes a landing on a well-used branch high above a small city park lake.
Bald Eagles were reintroduced into central California between 1986 and 1994. Sixty-six young eagles were collected in Alaska, northern California, and British Columbia and released in Big Sur in hopes that they would reestablish populations that disappeared from central California before the 1930s. Almost going extinct by the 1960s, the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966 and the 1972 banning of DDT turned their fate around. In 1993 these introduced eagles were confirmed to have begun breeding and by 2012 the central California population increased to 26 known breeding territories with more likely undiscovered.
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December 25th, 2017
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