{"id":6576,"date":"2021-01-10T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=6576"},"modified":"2021-01-10T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:34:08","slug":"savetheeaglesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6576","title":{"rendered":"#SaveTheEaglesDay"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveTheEaglesDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveTheEaglesDay<\/a>! Since the bald eagle restoration program ended in &#8217;89, their population continues to grow. Winter is one of the best times to view eagles in NYS\u2014they start arriving in Dec., with concentrations peaking in Jan. &amp; Feb. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A0yKlwT3bY\">https:\/\/t.co\/A0yKlwT3bY<\/a><br \/>\n? Maria Mahar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ia2diwyFjC\">pic.twitter.com\/ia2diwyFjC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYSDEC (@NYSDEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYSDEC\/status\/1348268355564654596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 1976 there was only one pair of bald eagles nesting in New York. Conservation efforts have increased that number to 389 territories in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Bald eagles mate for life &#8211; which can be over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Nests are reused and added to each year, growing to over six feet across, eight feet deep, and weighing hundreds of pounds.<\/p>\n<p>An eagle&#8217;s 2-inch-long talons can exert 1,000 pounds of pressure per square inch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s #SaveTheEaglesDay! Since the bald eagle restoration program ended in &#8217;89, their population continues to grow. Winter is one of the best times to view eagles in NYS\u2014they start arriving in Dec., with concentrations peaking in Jan. &amp; Feb. https:\/\/t.co\/A0yKlwT3bY ? Maria Mahar pic.twitter.com\/ia2diwyFjC \u2014 NYSDEC (@NYSDEC) January 10, 2021 In 1976 there was only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#SaveTheEaglesDay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-wildlife","category-the-environment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}