Wildlife biologist Dr Peter Sharpe spent years climbing into bald eagle nests that were perched on narrow cliff ledges hundreds of feet above the Pacific Ocean. Wearing a hard hat to protect himself from dive-bombing parents, Sharpe tagged chicks, monitored nests and fostered young birds as a part of an ambitious effort to restore bald eagles to California’s Channel Islands. According to a High Country News report documenting more than two decades of conservation efforts, Sharpe was once hospitalised after an adult eagle drove its talons into his scalp during a tagging mission. Those expeditions eventually became part of one of North America’s wildlife recovery stories.
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