Friday, May 03 2013 @ 01:06 PM EDT
Contributed by: MaryF
by Ron Popowski and Kathleen Clark
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Bald eagle soaring over New Jersey's Cape May National Wildlife Refuge.
Photo credit: Don Freiday / USFWS
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In 1982, New Jersey?s only remaining bald eagle nest failed for at least the sixth consecutive year.
Every year, the eagle eggs at the Bear Swamp nest were just too thin to withstand normal incubation - a result of residual contamination from the pesticide DDT. With hopes of securing a future for the species in the Garden State, biologists intervened.
?In a delicate procedure, we removed the egg after just two weeks, replacing it with a fake egg to keep the adults incubating at the nest,? says Kathleen Clark, a biologist with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife?s Endangered and Nongame Species Program (ENSP). ?The real egg was delivered to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland for artificial incubation.?
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Source: http://www.hancockwildlife.org/article.php/NewJerseysBaldEagleSuccessStory
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