Initiatives to improve Ohio’s water sources are touted as one of the reasons the state is seeing a significant increase in its bald eagle population.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division announcement a 14% increase in bald eagle nests from 2020 to 2021.
In addition to improving the state’s water quality, thereby increasing the fish population as a food source for the bald eagle, Ohio also eliminated the use of insecticides and pesticides, such than DDT.
“It was really essential to get this DDT out of our ecosystem, because DDT was making the eggshells of the bald eagles too weak, and so the chicks would never manage to hatch,” said Laura Kearns, a biologist from wildlife. said.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service removed the bald eagle from the federal endangered species list in 2007.
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The latest wildlife report shows an 82% nesting success rate in spring 2021, which translates to an average of 1.6 hatched eagles per nest, which is above the 1.0 threshold needed to maintain the bird population.
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“They have a lot of personality. They have a lot of voice,” Brazil Star, an avid bald eagle watcher, said bald eagles. “If you listen to them, you can learn their language when there is danger, when their mate comes in, when they are hungry.”
