Date: 11/14/24 4:17 pm From: Drew Haffenden via groups.io <andrew...> Subject: Re: [ALbirds] Active Bald Eagle Nest to be Destroyed in Auburn
Jud the Golden and Bald Eagle Protection covers this. Disturbing - there's more specific terms used in saying what disturbing is - an active Bald Eagle nest is illegal. Importantly the Act includes this as Disturbing: "In addition to immediate impacts, this definition also covers effects that result from human-induced alterations initiated around a previously used nest site during a time when eagles are not present, if, upon the eagle's return, such alterations agitate or bother an eagle to a degree that interferes with or interrupts normal breeding, feeding, or sheltering habits, and causes injury, death or nest abandonment"
The possible area of interpretation is interfering in normal refers to the pair or that specific nest. That is, if the pair build another nest and use it to produce a clutch in the same season have the eagles been disturbed to the degree required? "Interrupts" may also come into play.
Cheers,
Drew Haffenden
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From: <ALbirds...> <ALbirds...> on behalf of Jud Johnston via groups.io <egrosbeak1946...>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2024 5:42:09 PM
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Subject: [ALbirds] Active Bald Eagle Nest to be Destroyed in Auburn
How can this be allowed to happen? Supposedly Hughston Homes has a permit from Fish and Wildlife to destroy an active bald eagle nest just north of Auburn for a housing development. From WRBL in Columbus.
