This page is in association with the Earth Conservation Corps and the MPDC as a place for citizen scientists and eagle cam viewers to come together in a community driven collaborative environment. Feel free to post any photos, videos, thoughts, concerns about any the Earth Conservation Corps Eagle Cam (www.eaglecam.org) or any other Eagle Nest. The eagles are an urban wildlife success story. Pollu
tion forced the bald eagles to abandon their last DC nest in 1946. In 1994, the teenage volunteers of the Earth Conservation Corps launched a bold experiment to try to spur the return of the bald eagle as a nesting resident of our Nation's Capital. Fish and Wildlife permits, the Corps translocated sixteen baby eagles from nests in Wisconsin to an artificial "hack box" at the U.S. After being raised for six weeks at the Arboretum the juvenile eagles were released into the skies over Washington. Four eaglets were released every spring from 1994 to 1998. Between the eagles restoration efforts the youth of the Earth Conservation Corps galvanized the entire city in their mission to restore the eagles' Anacostia River habitat. In the spring of 1999, right on schedule, five years after the first release, bald eagles, Monique and Tink (named after fallen corps members) established the first bald eagle nest in Washington in over half a century. In 2005, Liberty and Justice (named by Chief Cathy Lanier) built their nest at the Police Academy. In 2015, a third pair finally picked a nest site where it all began at the National Arboretum. In 2013, Washington’s first eagle cam went live, The eagle cameras and an osprey camera as well as a satellite tracking research project are all part of our Earth Conservations Corps citizen science program, Anacostia Raptor Watch. We are grateful to the National Arboretum, Pepco, National Park Service, District Department of the Environment, National Geographic, and the thousands of volunteers who have contributed over one million hours in the restoration of the Anacostia.
