Thursday, January 25, 2007
Once a year, Lawrence residents are invited to celebrate the return of the eagles to Clinton State Park. The 11th annual Kaw Valley Eagle Day event was on Sunday at Free State High School. The event was presented by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks in association with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Jayhawk Audubon Society.
The free event featured an injured five-year-old bald eagle and a golden eagle from the Prairie Park Nature Center. It also included five special presentations and more than 10 exhibits for people of all ages.
You have no idea how many people live here all their lives and do not know we have eagles.
- Bunnie Watkins, ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Perry Lake
Two of the presentations were given by KU professors, Kelly Kindscher and Chip Taylor. Kindscher, courtesy associate professor in the division of biological studies spoke on wildflowers in Douglas County.
“I encourage people to use the prairie,” Kindscher said, “Wild harvesters do not hurt it, only converting the land to other uses affects it negatively.”
After Kindscher’s presentation, Taylor, professor of entomology, discussed monarch butterflies and their habitat.
Bunnie Watkins, ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Perry Lake, said, “You have no idea how many people live here all their lives and do not know we have eagles.”
The event usually has around 1,000 people, but this year had around 500 because of the snow, Watkins said.
David Rhoades, Clinton State Park manager, said they provided field trips to nearby Clinton Lake from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to view bald eagles in their native habitat.
“We like to take everyone to see them in the wild,” he said.
Mike Watkins, wildlife biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the first pair of bald eagles nested in Kansas at Clinton Lake in 1989. Since then, 42 eagles have nested, hatched and fled from Clinton Lake. The eagles migrate to Kansas in the winter and stay until March.
Kansan sportswriter Tyler Klaus can be contacted at tklaus@kansan.com.
— Edited by Lisa Tilson
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