News Release
Eagle Nature Foundation, Ltd.
300 East Hickory Street, Apple River, IL 61001
Phone: 815-594-2306 Fax: 815-594-2305 Web Site: eaglenature.com
e-mail: eaglenature.tni@juno.com Tax Exempt No. 36-4015400
| For Immediate Release | June 23, 2019 |
Help Save Our Bald Eagle
Our bald eagle needs our help! Each year the Eagle Nature Foundation’s volunteers from Minnesota to Nebraska to Tennessee are counting fewer and fewer bald eagles during ENF’s Midwinter Bald Eagle Count. Most all of the wintering communities of bald eagles which used to be in the Upper Midwest have completely disappeared.
Forty years ago there used to be many communities of wintering bald eagles scattered throughout the Upper Midwest. Where we used to see 50 to 80 birds in each community, now there are none to be seen. The birds in each of these communities have disappeared in the same way. First, the number of immature bald eagles decreases until there are none left, then the number of adults decreases until there are only a few adults left. In just another year or two, they are gone as well.
Today the total winter population of bald eagles in the Midwest is doing the same. We have been gradually losing the number of immatures and the number of adults that are seen each year is in a steep decline. We must determine the cause of this decline before it becomes too late. This decline can be seen on pages 50-51 of Mr. Ingram’s book The Plight of the Bald Eagle.
Every American has a stake in the future of the bald eagle. We cannot let our National Symbol become extinct because we did not help it when we needed to. Help the Eagle Nature Foundation determine the cause of this decline with your tax-deductible donation today, before it is too late. One dollar, ten dollars, twenty, or one hundred, or greater, they all help. Send your donation to the Eagle Nature Foundation, 300 East Hickory Street, Apple River, IL 61001.
Your help in locating bald eagle nests is also needed. If you know the location of a nest, let us know about it. But also check to see how many young that nest actually fledges, lived long enough to fly, and let us know. We know that many of the young which have been hatched during the past few years have had birth defects that prevent them from surviving to the age of even being able to fledge. Helping find these nests is something our college and high school students could do as well. Their help is needed. Whenever they find a nest they can let us know by sending that information to the above address.
If we are to keep our National Symbol flying free, we need the help of everyone. Help today!
For more information contact: Terrence N. Ingram, Exec. Director, Eagle Nature Foundation, 300 East Hickory St., Apple River, IL 61001 Phone 815-594-2306