Name Michigan’s Eaglets: Beulah and Liberty Lead Early Voting

Beulah, MI — Here’s an election you can sink your talons into that is minus the acerbic tenor of the presidential election. Donald and Hillary aren't among your choices, and neither is Bernie.

We're talking eagles, baby. Baby eagles.

The Michigan eaglets you’ve been watching all spring are healthy and remain in the nest, but will fledge soon — perhaps by the week of the 4th of July.

Before they do, they need names.

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Carbon Media, which fixed the Eagle Cam on the nest high above the Platte River State Fish Hatchery near Beulah on Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula in partnership with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, has opened voting to name the pair. Their gender is not yet known.

Voting opened Monday, American Eagle Day. Beulah and Liberty were early favorites among their, ahem, constituents.
Here are the choices:

• Liberty
• Justice
• Farsight
• Freedom
• Beulah
• America
• Carbon
• Platte
• Honor
• April
• Fuzzy
• Wuzzy
• Cherry
• Blossom

The public fascination with the raptors hasn’t waned much since viewers of the Carbon TV eagle cam fretted the eggs might not survive an early spring snowstorm.

Many stayed up through what would be labor in a human equivalent, and watched with awed fascination as the eagles pecked through the shells and hatched a day apart on April 19-20.

According to Learner.org, they’ll fly from the nest, or fledge, within 10-12 weeks.
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TELL US

• What are your top picks to name the eaglets?