White-tailed sea eagles in greater numbers in Finland
WWF / Seppo KeränenWhite-tailed sea eagle numbers are on rise again. This year 349 chicks have hatched, the biggest number since the start of the protection work in the 1970s. The previous record was 263 last year.
Recently completed calculations found 327 inhabited nests, most of them holding one to two chicks, but in about ten per cent there were three.
The sea eagle chicks feed initially on fish. Later they also eat young gulls and various sea birds.
White-tailed sea eagles become adults and start to nest in about five years. The WWF Finnish Sea Eagle task force has existed since 1973, when only five young white-tailed sea eagles hatched.
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