UPDATE: Black Eagle chick grows up before our eyes
New photographs of the Black Eagles' nest show a healthy, strong chick.
New photographs of the young Black Eagle living in the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens show the bird to be growing up fast.
Although the young eagle is now an impressive ball of small white feathers, it will take the little one another two months (August and September) to grow its wing feathers. This is known as the ‘fledge’ stage.
The eagle will be fully feathered by the middle of December. At about the same time, the now juvenile eagle will leave the area. From the time an egg is laid, normally between the end of April and beginning of May, it takes eight months for the egg to be incubated and hatched and for the eagle to grow up, learn to fly and leave the area.
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The process begins again at the end of February when the adult mating pair will hopefully start nest-building after their rest between December and February.
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