Audubon Florida and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission hosted an event at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in celebration of Independence Day and the amazing recovery of our national symbol - the Bald Eagle.
“Audubon is proud to have played a role in the bald eagle’s amazing success story in Florida,” said Eric Draper, executive director for Audubon Florida. “Our dedicated staff and EagleWatch volunteers, along with our state agency partners, have helped to identify potential threats to these magnificent birds and their nest sites, but our work is far from done. Together, we are leading the nation in the protection of this important and iconic species.”
"I think very few people know how close the nation came in the 1960s to losing its national symbol to extinction," said Charles Lee, advocacy director for Audubon of Florida, which operates a birds of prey center in Maitland that has rehabilitated and returned to the wild 450 bald eagles.
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