About 60-70% of young eagles perish in their first year primarily due to starvation, although collisions, electrocutions, and other dangers also befall them. Young eagles have a long adolescence to learning to hunt for themselves and it is a steep learning curve. Birds that are slow to learn do not make it. From what I’ve read, 10-20% survive to maturity.
Candace On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Peter <psara...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > Howdy folks. > > Am reading a very interesting, creative book by Pete Dunne called "The > Wind Masters....The Lives Of North American Birds of Prey". Dunne takes a > very creative approach to teach us about these birds...the book reads more > like a novel! I highly recommend it but have a question. > > In his piece about Bald Eagles, Pete says that, with respect to young > eagles, more than 90% that fledge in a given season don't survive to > adulthood, and nearly 60% of these die during their first year. Evidently, > to quote Dunne, "starvation is a young eagle's greatest adversary".. > > I was wondering what anyone thought about his statistics..... > > Thanks for the feedback. > > Pete Saracino > > > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
