Posted: April 15, 2025
We’re writing a series of blogs about the first few weeks of an eaglet’s life. An eaglet spends roughly 75 to 80 days in the nest. For about the first half, it grows and gains weight. For about the second half, it grows flight feathers and starts developing the skills it will need post-fledge. We will focus on week one in this blog. What can we expect in the first week following hatch? Like humans, a growing eaglet has developmental
Posted: April 8, 2025
As watchers know, Canada geese are nesting in two abandoned bald eagle nests in Decorah, Iowa. Hatch watch at N1 and our Bald Eagle nest in Trempealeau, Wisconsin starts tomorrow. This blog discusses the different between precocial Canada Geese and altricial Bald Eagles. Altricial eaglets rely on parental care until they fledge. But goslings are precocial: capable of moving around, self-feeding, and leaving the nest shortly after hatch. What does that mean? Read on to learn more! Canada Geese and
Posted: March 12, 2025
As of this blog post, DNF’s two eggs are 28 and 25 days old, Mrs. T’s three eggs are eight, five, and two days old, and Ma FSV’s four eggs are 18, 14, 11, and 7 days old. Hatch watch for Decorah North begins on March 19. 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
Posted: March 6, 2025
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
Posted: February 26, 2025
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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