From NPR (a similar trend for Balds is underway in Boulder County) --Scott
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Bald Eagles Are Back In A Big Way — And The Talons Are Out
by Elizabeth Shogren
NPR - September 4, 2013
Decimated by hunters, insecticides and other human pressures in the 1960s and 1970s, America's emblematic bird is once again flying high. Roughly 10,000 mated pairs now nest in the continental U.S., up from about 500 in the 1970s. But more birds also means fierce competition for territory and mates.
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