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Article: Baby Eagles Spread Their Wings in D.C.; Project Helps Return National Bird to Area
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- The Washington Post
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- July 19, 1995
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This was the plan: Four baby bald eagles raised in a giant plywood
crib in a tree overlooking the Anacostia River would be released
yesterday, deemed old enough to fly and fish on their own.
Here's what happened: One of the females flew the coop Saturday.
Another slipped out Monday. And when the cage bars were removed, the
two male eaglets just sat there.
"It's tough to be weaned off fresh fish and a roof over their
heads," said Dylan Glenn, board chairman of Earth Conservation Corps,
the environmental group taking care of the eaglets.
The care and release of the birds is an experiment to return the
national symbol to the nation's capital, where bald eagles haven't
nested for 50 years. The ...