Great Alaska eagle photo op.

[Bob Hullinger]

I just discovered the Alaska Raptor Center in these videos.

It's a pretty fascinating insight into bald eagles from perhaps the best authority in the world on bald eagles.

They accept donations and you can become a member and even adopt a bird.

Alaska Raptor Center – Rehabilitation. Education. Research.

alaskaraptor.org

Release day would be amazing to shoot.

 

[Fishboy1952]

Thanks for sharing Bob! Really great insights, and wonderful folks that work there. Thank you!

 

[frdjohns]

cool, thanks for sharing.

 

[Bob Hullinger]

Thanks for sharing Bob! Really great insights, and wonderful folks that work there. Thank you!

Your welcome. Ready to adopt yet? $75.00 a bird

 

[PeggyBaker]

Had a great experience visiting the Sitka Raptor Center back in 2018. So moving to watch these great birds come back from all the bullshit we have handed them.

 

[Bob Hullinger]

Had a great experience visiting the Sitka Raptor Center back in 2018. So moving to watch these great birds come back from all the bullshit we have handed them.

You got that right. Did you have your camera with you?

 

[Bob Hullinger]

Had a great experience visiting the Sitka Raptor Center back in 2018. So moving to watch these great birds come back from all the bullshit we have handed them.

I had this in here as a seperate post but it fits your message perfectly.

It's interesting that many of the birds listed for adoption are unable to survive in the wilderness because of electrocution injury to wing tips from flying into power lines.

I noticed also that there are several birds here that are from lower 48 states and that Alaska Airlines flies the birds to the facilities at no cost. Windmill farms in the lower 48 should provide plenty of new patients.

Kili and Jake are both red tailed hawks who can't survive in the wilderness due to human imprinting due to being raised by humans before they learned to hunt and couldn't be retrained to hunt and became beggars living on garbage. They can only survive by being fed by humans.

Kind of the human bullshit trifecta.

 

[PeggyBaker]

You got that right. Did you have your camera with you?

I did take photos although I don't really like to take photos of captive birds

You got that right. Did you have your camera with you?

I did have my camera with me, though I don't really like to take pictures of birds in captivity. I'm attaching the first picture I took when I got to Sitka and stepped out of our hotel, and the second is from the rehab.

 

[PeggyBaker]

I had this in here as a seperate post but it fits your message perfectly.

It's interesting that many of the birds listed for adoption are unable to survive in the wilderness because of electrocution injury to wing tips from flying into power lines.

I noticed also that there are several birds here that are from lower 48 states and that Alaska Airlines flies the birds to the facilities at no cost. Windmill farms in the lower 48 should provide plenty of new patients.

Kili and Jake are both red tailed hawks who can't survive in the wilderness due to human imprinting due to being raised by humans before they learned to hunt and couldn't be retrained to hunt and became beggars living on garbage. They can only survive by being fed by humans.

Kind of the human bullshit trifecta.

Fortunately there is work being done now on limiting bird deaths due to wind turbines/windmills

"Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that are killed each year by wind turbines. According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths."

Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades

The study ran for nine years at Norway's Smøla wind farm.

arstechnica.com

Here is a survey of initiatives from the BBC, including this: "In recent years a wind farm in Wyoming has trialled a system called IdentiFlight, which uses a camera-based monitoring system to automatically detect the presence of eagles and shut down the turbines in order to prevent accidents occurring.
A study published in January found the system reduced eagle fatalities at the site by 82%."

How to protect birds and bats from wind turbines

As wind farm numbers explode researchers are coming up with more ways to keep wildlife safe.

www.bbc.com

 

[Bob Hullinger]

Fortunately there is work being done now on limiting bird deaths due to wind turbines/windmills

"Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that are killed each year by wind turbines. According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths."

Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades

The study ran for nine years at Norway's Smøla wind farm.

arstechnica.com

Here is a survey of initiatives from the BBC, including this: "In recent years a wind farm in Wyoming has trialled a system called IdentiFlight, which uses a camera-based monitoring system to automatically detect the presence of eagles and shut down the turbines in order to prevent accidents occurring.
A study published in January found the system reduced eagle fatalities at the site by 82%."

How to protect birds and bats from wind turbines

As wind farm numbers explode researchers are coming up with more ways to keep wildlife safe.

www.bbc.com

All fine solutions as long as someone ethical with deep pockets and a heart is driving the bus but as soon as maintenance becomes a budget issue and money matters more than birds it's Vegomatic time for the neighborhood birds. Kind of like the Flint, Michigan drinking water decision mentality if you followed that at all. Money mattered more than uncontaminated drinking water to the state of Michigan so the decison to let people drink what is essential industrial sewage water was made. If someone will do that to a a few hundred thousand or so human beings good luck birdies in getting much consideration. Paying for safe water became more important than peoples lives. Business as usual. Keep your fingers crossed for the birds of the world that all those solutions still are implemented when it cuts into the bottom line and it becomes the first line item scratched off of the budget spending side of the list. Start worrying big time when BP or Conoco or some other major energy conglomerate proposes offshore windmills catching the Japanese trade winds in Alaska to start providing power to California and Vegas. Whether it's wind turbines, solar panels or oil, energy conglomerates control them all with equal power. Who knows maybe the next CEO of BP will put birds ahead of investors and dividends. I hope so but won't hold my breath.

 

[Fishboy1952]

Your welcome. Ready to adopt yet? $75.00 a bird

I am! Adopted 2 eagles! Thanks again!

 

[Bob Hullinger]

I am! Adopted 2 eagles! Thanks again!

I'm picked Tito the one eyed Saw-whet owl and Sitka the eagle.

 

[Fishboy1952]

Sitka and Volta, male and female eagles.

 

[Bob Hullinger]

Meet the adoptees everybody. There are more where these came from.

Tito

Tito (Northern Saw-whet Owl) Tito came to the Center from Juneau, AK. He was found on the ground, starving and being attacked by ravens. His right eye is deflated (blind) leaving him with no depth perception, making it impossible for him to hunt or defend himself in the wild. The Saw-whet owl is...

alaskaraptor.org

Sitka (Bald Eagle)

Sitka (Bald Eagle) Sitka was sent to the Alaska Raptor Center after being hit by a car in Ninilchik, a village on the Kenai Peninsula. She suffered from multiple injuries, including a hole in her right patagium, or the fleshy part of the wing, and severe damage to her right hallux, or rear toe...

alaskaraptor.org

Volta (Bald Eagle)

Volta (Bald Eagle) Volta was found injured on the ground after flying into a power line on the Sitka waterfront in 1992. He was brought to the Alaska Raptor Center suffering from concussion, electrocution, and several bone fracture injuries. Most of Volta’s injuries healed perfectly, but the...

alaskaraptor.org