. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. NATURALIST'S NOTEBOOK. LEFT: Mother osprey tends to new chicks in the nest atop a tall pine overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. RIGHT: These protective parents are wary of a photgrapher's visit in a cherry picker to capture a family portrait. A Web cam also documented their progress. Scientists found that DDT introduced into the food chain and taken into the birds' systems was causing them to lay thin-shelled eggs that broke easily during laying or when sat upon by parent birds. In fact, the brown pelic
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. NATURALIST'S NOTEBOOK. LEFT: Mother osprey tends to new chicks in the nest atop a tall pine overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. RIGHT: These protective parents are wary of a photgrapher's visit in a cherry picker to capture a family portrait. A Web cam also documented their progress. Scientists found that DDT introduced into the food chain and taken into the birds' systems was causing them to lay thin-shelled eggs that broke easily during laying or when sat upon by parent birds. In fact, the brown pelican and bald eagle were driven to the edge of extinction. Popula- tions of other fish-eating birds, including the osprey, were plummeting in many areas of the nation. Since the use of DDT in the was banned in 1972, ospreys and many once-endan- gered birds have been increasing in numbers. Now, the aquarium's living exhibit enables the public to witness the ospre/s renaissance first hand. With the installation of a camera near the nest in 1995, images have been relayed to an aquarium monitor from first light of day until sunset. Soon, the images will be posted on the aquarium's Web site. "It's a wonderful teaching tool," saysTerri Kirby Hathaway, former aquarium education curator and now North Carolina Sea Grant ma- rine education specialist. "I would tell the folks watching the monitor, That's live from Roanoke Island.' Their reaction was always one of surprise when they realized they could step out the nearby door and see the birds in the nest" The video captures and records the lifestyle of the osprey, says Malat For one thing, they are fastidious nestkeepers. To keep it pest-free, the birds sidle to the edge of the nest to "projectile poop" — a fact Malat learned the hard way when he first mounted the camera too close to the nest And, Hathaway adds, "The ospreys have used some pretty odd building materials through the years — a fly s
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