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Representative Walz Releases Bald Eagle on Super Tuesday
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Contest News Release January 2008
Tundra
Swan Release November 2007
Deck
Opener News Release Oct. 2007
Soar News Release April 2007
 Veteran's
License Plate Project
A very special
delegation came to visit on Monday July 25, 2005. Department of
Veterans Affairs Commissioner Clark Dyrud with photographer Heidi
Edwards. Photos taken of Harriet and her profile are to be used
for the Minnesota veteran’s license plates project. The proceeds
of these Minnesota License plates will go to help Veterans and
their families. We are proud that the Eagle Center eagles of
Wabasha, who are dedicated to veterans, can help with this project
to fund veteran family support services in Minnesota. For more
information visit the DVS
Special Plates page.
Articles
- Local Minnesota meanderings - Follow the mighty
Mississippi
By Lori Price | July 26,
2008
Near La
Crosse, the highway dips into the Mississippi River Valley and
offers views of sky-reaching bluffs and flowing blue waters.
Striking scenes of cattle in the hills, boats on the river and
yellow bluff rock bearded in greenery dot a path along U.S.
Highway 61, which connects Wisconsin and Minnesota. The vista is
an enjoyable...
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article Great place to visit - National Eagle Center
By Mark Kaske, Rochester, Minn
| Sunday, April 6, 2008
We had a fun
day trip this week to the National Eagle Center in Wabasha. It was
a pretty cool place with a bunch of hands-on exhibits that allow
you to really get an understanding of what Eagles are like and
what makes them special. The best part though was the presentation
with an Eagle.
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MN Bound: American symbol flocks along the Mississippi
RON SCHARA| KARE11 News Feb.
3,
2008
On the banks of the Mississippi river, a chilled winter morning grips the valley, with a cloud of steam rising above it. And who is out enjoying the frigid scene: bird watchers.
The truth is, most of us feed birds because we simply like to watch them. In fact, bird watching is one of the fastest growing outdoor pursuits in the nation. Mostly tweety birds come to my bird feeder, along with Chickadees and a few Woodpeckers.
But if you are looking for the big-time show, some big-time bird watching, you'll find it in a town called Wabasha, in
southeastern Minnesota. In this river town, eagles seem to be everywhere...
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Travel: Eagle eyes over Wabasha
GREG BREINING |
Star Tribune Jan. 20,
2008
Winter sets the stage for some of Minnesota's best bird-watching. As ice seals off lakes and streams in most of the state, the bald eagles that nested and fished near these bodies of water funnel southward along the Mississippi and congregate by the hundreds where currents or power plants keep the river ice-free.
One of the best places to watch these wintering eagles is the new National Eagle Center, perched along the river in downtown Wabasha.
On a recent day, program director MaryBeth Garrigan dropped me an e-mail saying, "This morning out my office window, there are about 45 sitting on a point in trees and on the ice floes off the shore." On a recent weekend, spotters at the center counted nearly 100 eagles. One winter day, they counted nearly 700 in the 15 miles of river between
Wabasha and Lake City... full
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places for watching eagles
Eagle watching around the Upper Midwest
By Dennis McCann | Special to the Tribune
Dec. 16, 2007
WABASHA, Minn. - As any winter birder will attest, America's founders were wise in choosing as their symbol the fierce and noble bald eagle and not, say, Wilson's warbler, barely palm-size, literally flighty and given to seasonal absences.
Eagles, on the other hand, are impressively large and easily observed...
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Bald eagles: Off the list and on the rise - New viewing center
celebrates bird’s resurgent status
By Rob Lovitt, Travel writer MSNBC
| Oct. 16, 2007
The bald eagle is back — in the skies, in the news and off the Endangered Species List.
Consider:
In June, the bald eagle was removed from the U.S. government’s Endangered Species List, 40 years after it was first declared endangered.
In September, the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., christened a new, $4.5-million facility in the prime viewing country of the Upper Mississippi River Valley.
And, in the coming months, migration patterns and rebounding populations will mean that more bald eagles will be more visible to more people than any time in recent history.
A bit of background: Originally declared the national bird of the United States in 1782, the bald eagle was once common throughout North America. (Estimates put the species’ population at up to 500,000 birds in the early 1700s.) By the early 20th century, however, it was in steep
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National Eagle Center spreads its wings
By Amber Dulek, Winona Daily
News | Published Friday, September 21, 2007
WABASHA, Minn. — Three months after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service took the bald eagle off the endangered species list, the grand opening of a new National Eagle Center will showcase the bird’s comeback along Wabasha’s shores.
The $5.2 million brick-and-glass building next to the Mississippi River will officially open with a kick-off ceremony Sept. 29.
“We have a fantastic resource to conserve and we hope people know we have a jewel here,” said MaryBeth Garrigan, programming and publicity director.
From one pair of eagles in the 1960s to about 150 today...
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Eagles still the center of attention
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, posted: Sept. 15, 2007
Wabasha, Minn. - On my drive to this Mississippi River
community to see the newly opened National Eagle Center, I saw a
stately bald eagle in a tall pine by the highway near Cornucopia.
The next day, while heading back, I spotted a pair of eagles in
another tree north of Hayward, and when walking to get the mail at
home that evening saw two more on the road where I live, sitting
wing-to-wing in one of their favorite white pines watching over
Lake Superior in the evening light... full
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Articles -
Eagle News Around the Nation
Rare albino eagle found in Colorado
Pinon Canyon area of
Southeastern Colorado | Thursday, July 17, 2008
A
part-albino Golden Eagle has been found in Southern Colorado and
850KOA has obtained exclusive, copyright photos of the bird just
before he was transferred to the Nature and Raptor Center of
Pueblo.
The male eagle is thin and is being treated for parasites. The
eagle's feathers are in such poor condition that it cannot fly.
However, Raptor Center Director Diana Miller believes the rare
eagle will recover and will be released in the Hoehne area in
about three months.
The eagle was found in the Pinon Canyon area of Southeastern
Colorado by Rancher Tony Hass. His wife, Connie, took the photos
as they waited for Division of Wildlife District Manager Jeremy
Gallegos to capture the eagle and take it to the Raptor Center in
Pueblo.
It's Great to See Them Come Back
Return Of Bald Eagle To Page County Indicative Of State- And
Nationwide Trend
By Andrew Jenner, Rocktown Weekly
- Harrisonburg, VA | April 9, 2008
As a national symbol, the bald
eagle enjoys more widespread appeal than the Kirtland’s warbler or
the San Clemente Indian paintbrush or the Big Bend ...
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Shreve hosts spring migration day
By Bob Downing | Thursday, Apr 03, 2008
Shreve, Ohio in southern Wayne
County will host the eighth annual Shreve Spring Migration
Sensation... full
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Juvenile RP national bird saved
Mindanao | Apr 3, 2008 in Feature, News
Barely three weeks after
rehabilitated young “Kagsabua” was freed to a natural park in
Bukidnon, another juvenile bird of the Philippine’s national
symbol, the Philippine Eagle, was rescued by a team of Philippine
Eagle Foundation (PEF) and DENR staff on March 24, 2008 in San
Isidro, Calabugao in Impasug-ong, Bukidnon...
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