Tina Morris was 26 years old when she spent months living alone beside an artificial nest at New York's Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. Her job was to raise young bald eagles and see whether they could survive after being released into the wild. The experiment began in 1976, when the species was still struggling after decades of persecution, habitat loss and the effects of DDT. Morris was a graduate student at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology when she was selected for the project. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says she eventually spent two years working with seven eaglets at Montezuma, near Seneca Falls, New York.
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