BIRDCAM.IT

The white-tailed eagle camera is located at a nest in West Estonia, a neighbour to the nest of Linda and Sulev that we have watched previously.

Two days before the Anniversary of the Estonian Republic the female arrived in the white-tailed eagle nest where the webcam is installed. The male who until then had guarded the nest alone at once became active, started to arrange nest material, brought more branches, talked with his mate....

The female that has arrived in the nest can also be seen as an Estonian national symbol– she has rings in the national colours on her legs (we know that she was born 50 km to the south and we have no earlier records of having met her). Estonia as country of birth is indicated by the blue-and-white ring on the right leg and the hatching year 2009 by the black-and-blue ring on the left leg...

The male in front and the Estonian B450 female in the background. The female was ringed as a nestling in 2009 so she will be 7 years old this early summer. Her eyes have not yet become the pale yellow colour of fully mature eagles, like the male's eyes have...