Bird Town Pennsylvania
Lower Makefield Township is listed as a participating municipality in Bucks County. Audubon provides the tools for the municipality to engage their residents, schools and businesses in making more ecologically-friendly decisions, conserving energy and in the process, saving money.
OUR MISSION
Bird Town Pennsylvania works in partnership with local municipalities and like minded organizations to promote community-based conservation actions to create a healthier, more sustainable environment for birds, wildlife, and people.
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A letter from the Chair of LMT Bird Town Pennsylvania
Lower Makefield Township's Bird of the Month for February 2025 - The Bald Eagle
Fascinating facts about the Bald Eagle:
● Rather than do their own fishing, Bald Eagles often go after other creatures’ catches. A Bald Eagle will harass a hunting Osprey until the smaller raptor drops its prey in midair, where the eagle swoops it up.
● Bald Eagles have been known to play with plastic bottles and other objects pressed into service as toys. One observer witnessed six Bald Eagles passing sticks to each other in midair.
● The largest Bald Eagle nest on record, in St. Petersburg, Florida, was 2.9 meters in diameter and 6.1 meters tall.
● Immature Bald Eagles spend the first four years of their lives in nomadic exploration of vast territories and can fly hundreds of miles per day.
● Bald Eagles can live a long time. The oldest recorded bird in the wild was at least 38 years old when it was hit and killed by a car in New York in 2015. It had been banded in the same state in 1977.
● Bald Eagles occasionally hunt cooperatively, with one individual flushing prey towards another.
January 2025 - Bird of the Month - The Red-Bellied Woodpecker
December 2024 - Bird of the Month - The Northern Cardinal
