Live Eagle Cam — Big Bear, California

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• spideyman

  April 7

  
  
  
  
  Feathers are growing
  
  
  

  
• spideyman

  April 7

  Florida Nest
  
  M and F continue with their stay vacation visiting the nest every few days. All is well at the pasture.

  
• GNTLGNT

  April 7

  ....those eaglets look like something out of Henson's Dark Crystal......

  
• Hedda Gabler

  April 13 edited April 13

  Spidey, forgive my ignorance on this. 

  
  

  If the two eagle babes are a boy and a girl, can they grow up to be a mating pair or are they wired to find future partners unrelated? I know they aren’t human and thinking incest or about weakening their line, but is this something that is innate in them?
  
  they are getting huge. 

  
• spideyman

  April 14

  Hedda Gabler said:

  Spidey, forgive my ignorance on this. 

  
  

  If the two eagle babes are a boy and a girl, can they grow up to be a mating pair or are they wired to find future partners unrelated? I know they aren’t human and thinking incest or about weakening their line, but is this something that is innate in them?
  
  they are getting huge. 

  No,it is generally unlikely that two eagles from the same nest would mate. This can also be said about mating with close relatives.  Once they fledge to their forever journey they usually do not stay together. It is a 5 year journey to adulthood in which over 50% do not survive the first year.
  
  Inbreeding would have the consequence of a negative effect on the offspring. The Eagle's main aim is survival and propagation. 
  
  Eagles are know for their strong  pair bonding and monogamous breeding behavior.  Once a pair bonds it is usually for life.  
  
  
  
  

  
• Hedda Gabler

  April 15

  Informative as always, thank you!