Contest begins to name Big Bear [CA]’s new baby bald eagle

ktla ^ | Nouran Salahieh

[BenLurkin]

A contest fundraiser to name the little eaglet is open until March 25.

After the deadline, 35 names will be randomly drawn.

The names will then be given to local Big Bear third grade classrooms for a final vote.

After that, all submissions will be entered into a random drawing for prizes, including Jackie and Shadow plush toys, a framed painting of the bald eagle couple, an eagle tapestry, and other gifts.

Since the chick’s gender is not known, a name that isn’t gender specific would work best, organizers said.

Friends of Big Bear Valley has been posting updates on the eaglet, saying it’s doing well and eating lots of fish.

“In addition to being adorable, our little one is gaining coordination and serious personality,” the group posted on Facebook Wednesday. “When Jackie’s tail passes over the chicks head the chick tried to grab her tail feathers… that sounds very familiar, oh yes, daddy does that too!”

“The chick is now starting to move around the nest bowl with ease, Jackie & Shadow better be ready, this one seems active and curious,” the group said.

[Sequoyah101]

We had two fledge in a cottonwood out back last year

Big deal.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Prop Chop ... food for the wind turbines.

[twister881]

>>Since the chick’s gender is not known, a name that isn’t gender specific would work best, organizers said<<

[Admiral] Rachel Levine

[aMorePerfectUnion]

✔️ Baldy McBaldface by a mile

[Getready]

Wait till the eagle declares what it identifies as...it could be a “they”...did the idiots in big bear really have to go there? Bunch of cowed clowns.

[lee martell]

Eggshell Baldine.

[blueunicorn6]

Cat Eater

[BenLurkin]

Like.

[Fungi]

War in Ukraine, untold dead, gasoline almost unaffordable, another 2700 page bill adding trillions to national debt—one nobody read— and a corrupt, demented "president" saying that ""everybody knows somebody" who has had a "revealing picture" --and this is what we get from the media. God help us, please.

[Ezekiel]

Big Bear’s famed bald eagle pair Jackie and Shadow welcomed a new chick for the first time in a long time — and it needs a name.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe this is God helping us.

[null and void]

BRANDON!

[MomwithHope]

LIBERTY

[MomwithHope]

LIBERTY

[twister881]

MAGA

[dainbramaged]

If you want to see a few dozen bald eagles up close, go to any open air landfill in Alaska.

[struggle]

Nobody suggest Dorner

[null and void]

Perhaps better than Alferd Packer?

[CAluvdubya]

Big deal.

Well actually it is kind of a big deal. I've been watching this nest for several years. They've gone through a few tough years of chicks dying, eggs not hatching (currently the case with one egg) and some harsh winter storms the parents endure to get to this point.

It's really quite interesting.