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Eaglets Removed From Temporary Nest at Mooseheart; Taken To Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation
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Article on Moose Magazine
http://www.mooseheart.org/news/2011/Eaglets.asp
MOOSEHEART, IL June 3 - A week-long effort to reunite a family of bald eagles at Mooseheart after their nest blew down in a heavy weekend storm came to an end Thursday night when the eaglets were removed from a replacement nest and taken to Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation in Barrington.
The decision to remove the two eaglets from the nest was made by Flint Creek President and Founder Dawn Keller when she made an in-nest inspection on Thursday night.
People step in after eagle mom leaves babies
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Article on ABC 7 Chicago
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/loca...
June 3, 2011 (BARRINGTON, Ill.) (WLS) -- Two eaglets that fell from a tree at Mooseheart Child City and School near Batavia are now being raised by humans.
The mother never returned after workers repaired the damage.
Eaglets removed from Mooseheart nest
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Article on Kane County Chronicle
Dawn Keller, who works with Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, said she made an immediate determination Thursday night that the babies had not been cared ...
Mooseheart eaglets removed, taken to shelter
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Article on Daily Herald
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110603/news/7...
The effort to reunite two bald eaglets with their parents at Mooseheart this week didn’t work out after all, as the parents weren’t feeding the babies.
Mooseheart’s Two Eaglets Get A New Home Following Weekend Storms
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Article on Batavia Patch
http://batavia.patch.com/articles/moosehearts-two-...
“They are healthy and fine.”
That was the news from Leslie Riemenschneider, of Mooseheart in Batavia, about a pair of eaglets who are now safe in a new man-made nest, waiting for their parents to take over again.
The drama began when the eagle’s nest with the latest brood was blown out of the tree during the weekend’s severe storms.
Fallen eaglets saved, get new home
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Article on Daily Herald
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110601/news/7...
Two bald eaglets and their parents have a new, sturdier home today in place of the one destroyed in Sunday's storms.
That nest in a skinny pine tree on the western edge of the Mooseheart campus came crashing down when a branch broke. The eaglets, who were in it at the time, were not injured by the 85-foot fall.
After nest destroyed, Mooseheart eagles taking to man-made home
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Article on Chicago Sun Times
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/5721432-423/aft...
Mooseheart’s eagle family appears to be settling in at their new man-made home.
The Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington and The Care of Trees of West Chicago on Tuesday constructed a new, sturdier nest after the eagles’ nest fell from its perch in an 85-foot-tall pine tree on the Mooseheart grounds in Batavia during the weekend storms.
Eagles adjust to new nest
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Article on Beacon-News
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/5720815-418/e...
Mooseheart’s eagle family appears to be settling in at their new man-made home.
“All indications are positive that mom and dad eagle are accepting their new nest,” Dawn Keller, executive director of the Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington, said Wednesday.