Bald-eagle nest sites in Va. listed online
You no longer need an eagle eye to find the nests of our nation's symbol.
The locations of all known bald-eagle nests in Virginia are available on a Web site developed by the Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University.
"We believe that breeding sites may be better protected in the long term if they are known to the public," the center said in a statement.
The center wants Virginians to report nests that don't show up on the site.
Airplane flights to find nests revealed that the number increased this year to 612, up nearly 5 percent from 584 last year.
The James and Rappahannock rivers were the top breeding areas.
In 1977, there were just 33 eagle pairs in Virginia. A federal crackdown on pesticides, among other things, helped bring the birds back.
-- Rex Springston
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Donk—I had the same problem. What you say makes sense. I followed that link on the error message, and it asked that I register for the Google maps API myself, but this must be done by the owner of the site. They might be (perhaps) registered on their development server, but not on their production server. Perhaps our T-D writer could notify his source of our technical problems.
When I registered on that website to view the Eagle nest sites it gave me an error message: The Google Maps API server rejected your request. This could be because the AP key used on this site was registered for a different web site.
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