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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Prince stops being a Creep, Jessica Fletcher gets an Instagram, and America gets summed up in a single GIF to win the internet this week.

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From napalm to nature: How the bald eagle helped turn a weapons factory into a wildlife refuge

Environment
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Bald Eagles on the Connecticut River

The Living on Earth Almanac

New Threat to Bald Eagles

The World

The Eagles Advance

Catherine Winter of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the successful recovery of bald eagle in Minnesota. The Federal government has proposed upgrading the eagle’s status from endangered to threatened.

The World

Bald Eagles Back From the Brink

Catherine Winter of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the comeback of America’s most famous endangered species. Thanks to strong legal protection and the banning of DDT in the United States, bald eagle populations are growing, and the federal government may upgrade the birds from endangered to threatened. Not everyone’s cheering the news; some worry that […]

The World

Eagles Return – An Endangered Species Act Success Story

V.J. Gibson of Jefferson Public Radio in Oregon visits the Klamath River National Wildlife Refuge, home to the largest population of bald eagles outside of Alaska.

Almanac: Bald Eagles

This week, facts about the world’s largest gathering of bald eagles. Every year around this time, Haines, Alaska hosts more than 3,000 eagles on the prowl for their favorite catch: chum salmon.

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Bionic beak

Environment

Faith talks to raptor biologist Janie Fink Cantwell about the bionic beak she has constructed for an injured bald eagle that had its beak shot off by a poacher.