Published on Feb 16, 2013 Video Description: This is a part of wonderful series of BBC's Human Planet Documentary. In this episode, they visited to the life of Mountain dwellers around the world. In the very beginning of the documentary , it will feature the eagle hunters of western Mongolian Kazakh people, where you can see the breathtaking scenes of hunting foxes with golden eagles. Hope you enjoy it.
Interested in tracking golden eagles? Here's news on three juvies being tracked in Utah. They hung around home for weeks; then all took off into the wild blue yonder first of October.
Wow! They must have had a deadline and waited to the very last minute to leave. I really don't like seeing these beautiful birds with all this tracking stuff attached to them but I do think it's so interesting to find out where they go after they leave the nest.
Report copied from FB: Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah
So Phoenix is still doing well. He did not make a complete moult last year as we’d hoped. His most badly burned side, the right, does have all new flight feathers (primaries and secondaries), but the top side of his right wing did not fully recover with new growth of the protective outer covert feathers—you can see the white down/under feathers on the topside of both wings.
His Left wing also has some minor deficiency with the protective outer covert feathers, but it is much better than the right. Also, the left wing did not fully moult all of the primary fight feathers—the last four (“fingertips”) primaries did not drop and so he still has the old feathers with fire damage to the ends. As you can understand, we are very interested in seeing that these moult this year.
One of the things we are doing now is to ensure Phoenix is not bored. He seems to need a lot of stimulation and so loves to play with his toys. He has tennis balls and rawhide dog bones that he loves to destroy and will fly from perch to perch while holding them. His MOST favorite thing to do is attack and destroy egg cartons which is what he’s starting to do in this video. You will notice there are the shredded remains of several egg cartons on the floor of his mews.
In the video, you may hear some people and wonder where their voices are coming. We are next door to the George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park and so people on the Park’s trails can often be heard from where Phoenix lives—he can’t see them, but is often seen tilting his head to listen.
He’s enjoying his days in the sun and taking baths. We’ve had a lot of road killed venison donated by the state DNR this year (good for our eagles, but bad for the deer and drivers), so he’s eating that as well as his favorite dishes, which are quail and rat.
We are still working on his beak, but it has really come a long way and he’s using it quite well to rip and tear his food. The dark colors are finally coming in nicely with just a few areas on the tip of the upper beak that still show white. The lower mandible is still much lighter colored and so seems to be a little softer than we would like, but we are encouraged by the amazing progress of this once heavily damaged beak.
Of course the big question is always, “will he be released/releasable?” and our answer is “we hope so”. The longer he remains in his current unreleasable state due to feather condition the harder it will be to condition him for life in the wild, but all we can do is wait and see. We’ll keep you posted on his progress, but the moult we want to see will likely not show progress until late summer.
We have a few photos to share later as we have time to post them and we know you’ll enjoy them as well as another video or two.
Thank you again for all your love and support of WRCNU and Phoenix—you all are very much appreciated! Please share this with those you think will be interested in Phoenix’s progress.
Video on FB....I don't know how to move the vid to here, sorry. Phoenix.JPG - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)
Thanks for the update Dix and also Bunnie for the video. Phoenix looks amazing compared to his beginning and those talons look deadly as they should ..... watch out egg carton!! LOL This beauty has come a long way from the burnt little baby eaglet found by chance. There are so many wonderful rehabs and people out there giving their all to help these raptors survive due to the negligence of others.
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Tue May 07, 2013 10:07 am
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Amazing Raptor!! 
He's a miracle eagle and does look good considering his story.
There are so many wonderful rehabs and people out there giving their all to help these raptors survive due to the negligence of others. 
