WASHINGTON — An eaglet, under the protection of the Earth Conservation Corps, came into the world Saturday morning in Southwest D.C.
The Earth Conservation Corps, a nonprofit organization, which runs a live camera that streams video from the eagle nest, confirmed a “pip,” the term for when an eagle first starts to peck through the egg, on Friday, just after 8:30 a.m.
The camera watches over parents, Liberty, a female eagle, and Justice, a male eagle, who have been nesting in an oak tree near the D.C. Police Department Training Academy in Southwest since 2004
Liberty laid the egg on Feb. 7.
Liberty and Justice also laid an egg on Feb. 11, which is expected to begin hatching Sunday.
The eaglet that hatched Saturday morning is called ECC3. Sunday’s anticipated new arrival will be called ECC4.
Any classroom that helps the ECC with the Citizen Science Eagle Database — where the ECC documents how long Liberty and Justice spend time incubating the eggs — will get to help name the eaglets in mid-March.
Since 2004, Liberty and Justice have had one or two eggs per year. Last year, Liberty laid two eggs, one of which hatched on March 15. Over 4,000 people voted on the name Spirit, the ECC said.
Nahal Amouzadeh contributed to this story.
