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Video Ame, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 24.04.2018

When female eagle  Suvi rose for a moment from the nest in the morning a little before half past seven the eagle chick had hatched….

White-tailed eagle       Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla   

Thirtyseven days of incubation in the cold spring, sometimes even in a snowdrift.

The chick was hatched from the first egg laid on March 18. From the incubation period we can deduce that the egg that was crushed on April 5 was laid on March 21.

Video record  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee
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Estonian text posted 22.04.2018

Capercaillie       Metsis or  mõtus      Tetrao urogallus

The sun in southern Estonia rises already at a quarter to six. A couple of hours before sunrise the cocks start to call, but in the trees where they spent the night.

When the hens arrive to the lek area the first cock lands on the ground and soon also the other participants in the lek.

Video recorded by  Urmas Lett, www.eenet.ee

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Estonian text posted 13.04.2018

Golden eagle          Kaljukotkas or maakotkas       Aquila chrysaetos

Already in winter the Eagle Club installed a camera at the nest of the golden eagles in Soomaa so that the watchful birds would be less disturbed by people moving around. The eagle pair visited the nest with varying frequency, brought new nest materials and marked it with fresh green twigs …

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Text Urmas Sellis
Video recorded by  liznm, LK forum
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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

White-tailed eagle; Sea eagle      Merikotkas      Haliaeëtus albicilla

Are two eggs better than one?

If you have a choice, then surely. But in the Estonian white-tailed eagles’ (Suvi and Sulev) nest with webcam there is not much choice – only one egg remains in the nest.

The second egg was broken on the morning of April 5th and the remnants  were removed by the adults from the nest.

Text written and photos and videos selected by  Tiit Hunt, www.rmk.ee

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Estonian text posted 11.04.2018

Last year in the autumn we installed the web Camera at the Metsküla shore, in a site from where at about five kilometres distance in 2013 the first evidence came to prove the presence of the golden jackal   (Canis aureus) in Estonia.

Now we will leave the jackals on their own in Metsküla and bring to mind who has been seen and heard in camera view during the five months. 

Already in the evening at the installation of the camera the ringing howl  of two jackals sounded from the beach. The jackals here also howl at propeller-driven airplanes and the evening plane between Kuressaare and Tallinn almost always made the animals howl .