Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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Photo: A bald eagle chick with its surrogate mother, a hand puppet resembling an adult bald eagle, at the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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A bald eagle chick with its surrogate mother, a hand puppet resembling an adult bald eagle, at the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The hand puppet is used extensively to get the chicks to feed during their first few weeks of life.

Photo: An 18-day-old bald eagle chick at the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chicks are seven days old, they will never see nor hear their human hosts in order to keep the birds wild.

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An 18-day-old bald eagle chick at the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chicks are seven days old, they will never see nor hear their human hosts in order to keep the birds wild.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is moved out of the chick lab and into a large barn nearby by workers wearing "ghost costumes" at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

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A bald eagle chick is moved out of the chick lab and into a large barn nearby by workers wearing “ghost costumes” at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing "ghost costumes" at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

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A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing “ghost costumes” at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing "ghost costumes" at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

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A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing “ghost costumes” at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing "ghost costumes" at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

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A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing “ghost costumes” at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing "ghost costumes" at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

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A bald eagle chick is weighed by workers wearing “ghost costumes” at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act. After the chick is seven days old, it will never see nor hear its human host in order to keep the bird wild.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is fed by a hand puppet at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act.

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A bald eagle chick is fed by a hand puppet at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act.

Photo: A bald eagle chick is fed by a hand puppet at the Sutton Avian Research Center's incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act.

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A bald eagle chick is fed by a hand puppet at the Sutton Avian Research Center’s incubation room near Bartlesville, OK. This chick was hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act.

The eggs of the white-spotted glass frog or white-spotted cochran frog (Sachatamia albomaculata), a species native to Panama and Central America, at Zoo Atlanta.

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The eggs of the white-spotted glass frog or white-spotted cochran frog (Sachatamia albomaculata), a species native to Panama and Central America, at Zoo Atlanta.

The eggs of the white-spotted glass frog or white-spotted cochran frog (Sachatamia albomaculata), a species native to Panama and Central America, at Zoo Atlanta.

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The eggs of the white-spotted glass frog or white-spotted cochran frog (Sachatamia albomaculata), a species native to Panama and Central America, at Zoo Atlanta.

The eggs of the white-spotted glass frog or white-spotted cochran frog (Sachatamia albomaculata), a species native to Panama and Central America, at Zoo Atlanta.

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The eggs of the white-spotted glass frog or white-spotted cochran frog (Sachatamia albomaculata), a species native to Panama and Central America, at Zoo Atlanta.

Japanese coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica) at a hatchery located on the grounds of the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK.

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Japanese coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica) at a hatchery located on the grounds of the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK.

Japanese coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica) at a hatchery located on the grounds of the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK.

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Japanese coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica) at a hatchery located on the grounds of the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK.

Japanese coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica) at a hatchery located on the grounds of the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK.

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Japanese coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica) at a hatchery located on the grounds of the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK.

Critically endangered (IUCN) and federallly endangered California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), pecking its way into the world at acaptive breeding facility.

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Critically endangered (IUCN) and federallly endangered California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), pecking its way into the world at acaptive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park's captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park's captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park's captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park's captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park's captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s captive breeding facility.

A newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park's captive breeding facility.

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A newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered; at the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered at a captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered at a captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered at a captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered at a captive breeding facility.

A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered at a captive breeding facility.

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A biologist holds a newly hatched California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered at a captive breeding facility.

Critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), pecking its way into the world at acaptive breeding facility.

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Critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered California condor chick, (Gymnogyps californianus), pecking its way into the world at acaptive breeding facility.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This particular egg developed a small hole during incubation that workers mended with a special adhesive so that the chick could continue to develop and hatch.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This chick has bandages on his stomach to staunch bleeding where his stomach was connected to the inside of the egg.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This particular egg developed a small hole during incubation that workers mended with a special adhesive so that the chick could continue to develop and hatch.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This particular egg developed a small hole during incubation that workers mended with a special adhesive so that the chick could continue to develop and hatch.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This particular egg developed a small hole during incubation that workers mended with a special adhesive so that the chick could continue to develop.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This particular egg developed a small hole during incubation that workers mended with a special adhesive so that the chick could continue to develop.

Photo: At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

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At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program.

Photo: Bald eagle chicks at the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK. They were hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act.

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Bald eagle chicks at the Sutton Avian Research Center near Bartlesville, OK. They were hatched in captivity as part of the Bald Eagle Recovery Act.

Photo: The nest of a captive female Attwater's prairie-chicken (endangered.) Few of these eggs will hatch, and few of the surviving chicks will make it to adulthood.

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The nest of a captive female Attwater’s prairie-chicken (endangered.) Few of these eggs will hatch, and few of the surviving chicks will make it to adulthood.

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