I saw this message come across another listserver and thought it might help explain the observations Kelley shared from her eagle survey. It seems nesting eagle 3-somes have been documented in CA.
Dave

David C. Tracy
dtracy at richardloschinc.com (work)
davect at bendnet.com (personal)

----- Original Message -----
From: Suzanne Tomassi
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: View Trio of Bald Eagles Live


They first raised a chick together in 1992, assuming this is the same 2-female, 1-male trio.

Suzanne

>From: stan moore
>Reply-To: "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of Ornithology"
>To: ORNITH-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>Subject: Re: View Trio of Bald Eagles Live
>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:22:26 -0500
>
>Dear Peter --
>
>Hasn't this trio been together for several years now? I recall
>hearing
>about this a while back. Maybe there is something in the water here
>in
>California that affects eagles of BOTH species, as there is a golden
>eagle
>nest in the Bay Area with two adult males and one female reproducing
>successfully (at least last year).
>
>Cheers!
>
>Stan Moore San Geronimo, CA hawkman11 at hotmail.com
>
>
>>From: Peter Sharpe
>>Reply-To: "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of Ornithology"
>>
>>To: ORNITH-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
>>Subject: View Trio of Bald Eagles Live
>>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:40:07 -0500
>>
>>The Institute for Wildlife Studies and the University of Southern
>>California's Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies are happy
>>to
>>announce that the live streaming video of a nesting trio of Bald
>>Eagles on
>>Santa Catalina Island, CA is again on-line. The trio currently
>>have two
>>chicks that are approximately 5-weeks old. You can view the video
>>by
>>visiting our site at http://www.iws.org and clicking on the video
>>link.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Peter Sharpe, Ph. D.
>>Institute for Wildlife Studies
>>P.O. Box 2500
>>Avalon, CA 90704
>>310-510-0978
>>Fax: 310-501-0982
>>sharpe at iws.org
>>http://www.iws.org
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com