Recently, for the American July 4th Celebration I did a podcast on the American Emblem — the Canadian Bald Eagle. If any of you are still unsure of my background with eagles, here is one version of it.
It is kind of ironic that my start of working with bald eagles was to become alarmed about their demise in the adjacent Washington State — where the bird had been eliminated by a $2.00 bounty (the bounty = 8 gallons of gas at $0.23 / gal) and paid for the Washington State fishery fleet to boat back to Alaska for the summer fishery. A bucket of bald eagle legs covered their return trip. It was that discovery at age 15 that got me into conservation.
Alex Re has a whole wonderful series of podcasts on interesting wildlife and I was honored to contribute to his series. Thanks Alex.
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