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Peek inside a bald eagle egg: 17 days!

This chicken embryo is roughly equivalent to an eaglet at about 13 days. We can see the bony plate around its eyes, long folded limbs, rudimentary feet and 'hands', feather germs, and oversized head. Next up: feathers and scales!

As of this blog post, DNF’s two eggs are 22 and 19 days old. We have a three-day-old egg in Trempealeau and four eggs ranging from 11 days old to two days old at Xcel Energy’s Fort St. Vrain nest. What do embyronic eagles 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

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Peek inside a bald eagle egg: 11 days!

Seven day old chicken embryo. It's roughly equivalent to a 12-day old embryonic eagle.

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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