Good News from Sun, 14 June, 2009:

History’s first Sea Eagle nest in central Finland

Pertti Saurola /WWF The young eagles were banded on June 2nd. Banding helps to identify individual birds.
The endangered White-tailed Sea Eagle has nested for the very first time in the Tavastia-region of central Finland. The nesting was reported by WWF’s Sea Eagle task force. The historical nest shelters two young eagles, which at the time of banding were seven weeks old.

The Sea Eagles chose a very impressive nesting location. The pine tree on which the nest is built, is the highest nesting location ever recorded in Finland. The Sea Eagle couple built the nest up to a height of 25,7 metres from the ground level.
   
- Sea Eagles growing up inland are lucky because they are not subject to Baltic Sea’s harmful organisms through their nourishment. In future the eagles will migrate to the Baltic Sea at least for the winter periods, explains the Director of WWF Finland’s Sea Eagle task force, Torsten Stjernberg.
 
WWF has worked towards protecting the White-tailed Sea Eagle since 1973, when the Sea Eagle task force was established to protect the bird, which was on the brink of extinction. Since then the Sea Eagle population has increased in the Baltic Sea region and Lapland.

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