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Decorah Eaglet DH3 is Here!

March 27, 2026 RaptorResource

DH3 is here! It’s isn’t easy to see, but look at the lower right side of the video to watch the hatchling tumble out of its shell at 7:01 this morning. We can’t hear HM2’s quiet chirps as she tenderly collects the hatchling with her beak and nudges it beneath her warn feathers. But we can hear her softly vocalizing to HD when he comes in to see his hatchling. She isn’t ready to give up her first morning of

March 26, 2026: Hatch in Progress in Decorah!

March 26, 2026 RaptorResource

Hip pip hooray, hatch is on the way! One of our eagle-eyed camera operators spotted a pip in the egg at Decorah this morning at around 7:04. Look closely at 0:15 for a dark mark toward the blunt end of the egg. Hatch is a process: eaglets generally arrive 24-36 hours after we notice the first starring on the blunt end of the eggshell, but it can sometimes take 48 hours or more. Follow along as we wait for DH3

Peek Inside a Bald Eagle Egg – At Hatch!

March 24, 2026 RaptorResource

Hatch Watch 2026 kicks off in Decorah today! HM2’s first egg will turn 36 days old on March 25. While egg #1 usually hatches at about the 39-day mark, hatch is a process: the third great landmark in the life of a chick after fertilization and laying. We’ve got all of our egg schedules here: Inside The Egg Until now, the eaglet has absorbed oxygen and nutrients directly into its bloodstream. But with hatch imminent, it needs to begin using

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Hatch Watch 2026 Is On!

March 24, 2026 RaptorResource

Decorah Eagles Hatch watch starts today, March 25: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/decorah-eagles/. HM2 laid two eggs: the first on February 17 and the second on February 21. While hatch may already have started inside the egg, we’ll be looking for a pip – the first external sign of hatching – on or around March 26. Curious about what’s going on inside a Bald Eagle Egg at hatch? More here: https://www.raptorresource.org/2026/03/24/peekinsideathatch/ Decorah North Eagles DNF laid just one egg and UM has not participated

Bald Eagle Play-by-Play with Explore.org and RRP

March 24, 2026 RaptorResource

Join us on YouTube on March 25 at 4pm CT for the first of our 2026 play-by-plays: https://youtube.com/live/-wvmSOs_PB4?feature=share. We’ll be catching up on events at all of our nests and answering audience questions submitted in advance here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdgmlDBR2626ApdJByrvP9I4tCCLl-U0VCZ4of_ZTVPk9cGQ/viewform. For show number one, we’ll discuss: And whatever else you ask us! Follow the link above to get your questions in.

Meet the Fort St. Vrain Bald Eagles

March 18, 2026 RaptorResource

The Xcel Energy Fort St. Vrain camera is located in a cottonwood tree near Platteville, CO, on property owned by Xcel Energy. We’ve been streaming this camera – or at least uploading photos – since 2003, making it one of the oldest eagle cams on the internet. It isn’t part of our explore.org family, so eagle fans tend to be a little less familiar with it. Live stream here: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/xcel-energy-cams/ The Area As the eagles look out from their nest,

What’s on the Menu at Fort St. Vrain?

March 18, 2026 RaptorResource

What’s on the menu at the Fort St. Vrain Bald Eagle nest? Back in 2017, we collected prey remains from the nest. We didn’t have permits to take feathers – of which I found only two, both belonging to prey – but there were plenty of skulls and a few turtle shells. We found 35 fish remains (skulls, skull fragments, opercular bones, jawbones, and an otolith), seven prairie dog skulls and one foot, one desert cottontail skull, one common muskrat

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day From the Raptor Resource Project!

March 17, 2026 RaptorResource

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to our friends near and far! May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire! In celebration of the day, we wanted to share an osprey conservation story from Ireland. In 2023, Ospreys bred in Ireland for the first time in over 200 years: https://www.ulsterwildlife.org/news/ospreys-breed-ireland-first-time-over-200-years. Reintroduction efforts include monitoring, releasing, reporting, and satellite

Bald Eagle Pa Junior Found Dead

March 16, 2026 RaptorResource

We are sorry to announce that Bald Eagle Pa Jr. was found dead late last year in the far northeast corner of Xcel Energy’s Fort St. Vrain plant. Xcel Energy reported his death to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. An autopsy conducted by CPW indicates that electrocution may have been a factor. This is the first reported power line incident here. After the autopsy, Pa Jr.’s remains were sent to the National Eagle

Peek inside a bald eagle egg: 11 days!

March 16, 2026 RaptorResource

What do embryonic eagles look they look like as they develop and grow inside their eggs? Dr. Peter Sharpe from the Institute for Wildlife Studies developed a table of bald eagle embryonic development based on work done by Hamburger and Hamilton (1951). While not all bald eagle eggs hatch in 35 days, the stages of development look something like this… When we last peeked inside the egg, our embryonic eagle had inner and outer layers, a developing circulatory system, a

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