Canada

Richest bald eagles on the planet, those nests with that view easily north of 10Million

It's not a great sign for the upcoming US election that even the bald eagles are preemptively moving to Canada.

It's amazing how much the bald eagle population recovered. As a child and then an adult growing up in SW Ontario, I never even saw a bald eagle. It wasn't until I was in my 30s, and after we moved out west that I saw my first one, in 2013. I saw two that year. Then two or three the next year. Then even more the year after, and got nice and close to a juvenile on a golf course at our company tournament.

Fast forward to today, and I know of about 5 nests in the the park near our house, and I always see at least one when I'm near that area. I go for bike rides in the summer evenings, and it's rare that I don't see at least one near the river.

Even back home, there's two nesting down at the river in the field behind my parents house. I saw the mother of all bald eagles on a drive near my parents place last year too. It's crazy (and super awesome) how that's changed over even the last decade.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

By the early 1960s, there were only a few hundred breeding pair left on the continent, said Michael Drescher, an environmental planning and conservation expert at the University of Waterloo.

The unlikely success of the bald eagle recovery in many ways mirrors the billion-dollar effort to restore the green spaces and wetlands threading Toronto.

But the arrival of eagles to the city reflects a deepening level of ecological recovery – one that suggests the thrumming heart of Canada’s largest metropolis isn’t just a suitable home for hardened, urban wildlife like squirrels, coyotes and raccoons.

The eagles were first spotted in recent months displaying mating behaviour high above the city, locking talons and tumbling through the air, before releasing close to the ground.

In early February, a handful of residents spotted their nest – roughly the size of a queen mattress – among the leafless tree branches and reported it to the TRCA.

But however long they last in the city, the pair also suggest a tangible result to the slow and costly efforts to clean up the polluted rivers, trash-strewn forests and lifeless old industrial sites.

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Don't mind us Canada, just keeping an eye on things.

Do bald eagles eat raccoons? I heard this food source is plentiful in Toronto!