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The refuge features a visitor center on Key Wallace Drive where visitors will find wildlife exhibits, an authentic eagle's nest, Eagle Cam and Osprey Cam TV monitors, the Eagle's Nest Book and Gift Shop, a butterfly garden, restrooms, and maps and brochures that will help visitors make the most of their visit.
The Osprey Cam live chat is a place to discuss ospreys, and air questions about behaviors or related topics. The live chat is also a place to call out observations of fish being brought to the nest, to track the ospreys' dietary trends. [110]
The osprey and owls are the only raptors whose outer toe is reversible, allowing them to grasp their prey with two toes in front and two behind. This is particularly helpful when they grab slippery fish. [26] The osprey is 0.9–2.1 kg (2.0–4.6 lb) in weight and 50–66 cm (20–26 in) in length with a 127–180 cm (50–71 in) wingspan.
There are also 2 platforms for osprey nests located near the lake. A live cam features real-time video of the birds. Southwest of Charlo is the CSKT Bison Range, a refuge managed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. [7]
Nesting pairs of both the bald eagle and white-bellied sea eagle have been subject to live-streaming webcam footage. [12] [13] In heraldic language, the osprey is termed a "sea-eagle", although ospreys come from the taxonomic family Pandionidae and are not classified as true sea eagles.
The world’s oldest known wild bird has sparked “special joy” among scientists after she laid an egg – her first in four years – at the age of 74.
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A resident male osprey managed to attract a female osprey (a 2008 bird from a Rutland Water nest) who laid their first egg on 25 April 2011, a second three days later, and a final egg on 1 May 2011. On 5 June 2011 the first osprey chick emerged, the second on Monday 6 June 2011, and the third on 7 June 2011, comprising one female (ringed Blue ...