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Anyone know how eagles learn to fly and have proof to back it up? I've read probably 10 different websites, all of them saying different things. My mom needs to know fairly quickly and I'm out of ideas. So… any ideas?

No idea, but you can watch a family of eagles in real time here. Maybe one of them will learn to fly soon.

Maybe tracking down and emailing a professor of ornithology whose research includes eagles would yield higher quality results than some webpages. One time I had a question about lizards and I found highly respected biologist Eric Pianka's email and got a reply in like 20 minutes.

I highly recommend learning to use the subject guides on the HBLL web site. They have great sources for things like this. I went to the Plant and Wildlife Sciences subject guide and they had a whole tab for scholarly websites. On that tab, I found a link for Birds of North America Online (a website sponsored by the American Ornithology Association and the Cornell Lab or Ornithology.
A link under Bald Eagles, Breeding, tells about how the mother birds encourage their young out of their nests: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/. Hopefully that's what you're looking for, DL.

Also, you can always go to the subject pages and chat live with the subject librarian for that area. They are usually very happy to help answer questions.

(P.S. I didn't mean this response to be overly critical of you, DL. I just figured that most people here don't know how to use the subject guides and so I thought I'd take the opportunity to teach people how to fish rather than just giving them a fish.)

Rifka, I appreciate that info. I don't feel overly-criticized. But… I need a subscription to see the breeding section. I'm not at BYU anymore, so I can't use their subscriptions for things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1iYFxF0O8

Does that answer your question?

Oops-- I didn't realize you weren't at BYU, DL (nor did I realize the website was subscription based). I live on campus, so I forget about that sometimes. You could try Biology Browser (also found through the subject guide page)-- it says it's a free website, and it has a whole list of eagle information here: http://www.biologybrowser.org/search/ap ... arch/eagle. A lot of the websites on the subject guides require a subscription, but not all of them do. It's always worth checking around.

Marduk wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1iYFxF0O8

Does that answer your question?

Ummm…. not quite.