Eagles

a few miles outside of avalon on the shoulder of the world haven't road read biologist contemplating one of catalina island's many large eucalyptus trees and this one is unusually cradle it's a peruvian says a bald eagle nest here sharpening his colleagues for the institute for wildlife studies are here to the us major climate have to do what we can do about twenty minutes at this early stage in nesting avid tennis either abandon asked if we keep them off for about twenty minutes or more stealing the eagles eggs provides the only hope for saving their unborn checks the pulse murders peninsula contains the nation's largest deposit of ddt and eagles here are so highly contaminated they can't reproduce without human assistants the ddt week and the shells of their eggs so the biologists need to remove the eggs before they break under the weight of the birds dunham stars assistance and for the latter mel biologist kevin ryan wraps ongoing strikes and appears to scale the tree frog lovers life and last minute instructions decided to re

roll it into an ocean i put police official i wanted the two fake ones we want greece to kiss the ravens to come in and steal it just did not happen so why you need the fake eggs just keep them sitting in the nest until we have a check to put in those legal deal with their six forty two there's instrumentation francaise institute's work with bald eagles on catalina is paid for by some of the damages awarded in two of the nation's largest settlements for ecological destruction a total of a hundred and forty five million dollars from chemical companies and local governments some difference from other protests it improves and with a series of clocks wheels and whistles sharp says many movie makers don't get bald eagles with maureen dr

lyons we have to have you know these cracks shar places the eggs in a portable incubator within the hour he will take the first helicopter off the island and hopper played a daily acts for san francisco where biologist will try to hatch the eggs but sharp says that will be difficult because the ddt tainted shells are so thin and dehydrated we only have about fifteen to twenty percent had huge success with the edge of the island and i'm not counting on these eggs to hatch ddt poisoning wiped out catalina as bald eagle population in the nineteen fifties and nineteen eighty the institute for wildlife studies began reintroducing eagles here because of the difficulty hatching the wild eggs most of the chicks reardon catalina are really the offspring of captive eagles at the san francisco zoo of the thirty three eclipse the institute has placed into nests over the past twenty years only five are the descendants of catalina birds this is a real

trick to relate to it that we called the pull of interest when he can share prices took to san francisco so we can return with actually on a recent night in his living room in avalon he cares for needle it born from a zoo bird in this age of every three hours sharpton to the beat of a plastic evil puppet into a bowl of brown quail meat and feeds the check he holds using the puppet will help keep the jet from bonding with him instead of a new mother in between bites legally cheap so energetically its body throbs with every chirp nothing on the check his color it will be its talons are paying its beak and isaac black an ungainly body sprouts great downs it's a gottlieb beginning for what will become of fiercely beautiful bird and finally for the chicken drinks into a baby blue sheet cooling and new content and call

it the next morning sharp gathers a hefty pile of gear plus eat gluten pat carrying case and we had for a nest in a remote spot ten miles northwest of town clusters of the island's famous bison are hunkering down a newly sprung grass sharp stops at an opening where hills studded with small slender oaks relax into a cliff top meadow was it into a banana yellow suit sharp straps on a safety harness that will look into a hundred feet of rope dangling from a helicopter light the chopper lives off slowly trailing far under it looks as if he's standing on a rock in the pounding over the roar of the reporters have a video camera mounted on his helmet

and here lies our faiths but because they at a scene reminiscent of having tiger hidden dragon frontlines of the treetops glisten with landing there was an ego american child was a male a female i just started circling around sort of my own nation and as soon as i left it was that their private than twenty or thirty seconds a light the mother eagle begins to care for their baby immediately apparently unaware or i'm concerned that it's not her own peter sharp says the institute for wildlife studies has introduced six eclipse to catalina this year bringing the total number of bald eagles currently living on the island to twenty with funds from the deities settlement the institute plans to reintroduce bald eagles to other channel islands

settlement dollars will also pay to cover the ddt deposit with clean sand shark of cleanup efforts will lead to the biggest payoff eagles that are free to reproduce on their own for kpcc news i'm gil says that seal on catalina island