The Philippine Eagle

Birds reproduce by internal fertilization, during which

Male Female the egg is fertilized inside the female. Like reptiles, birds
have cloaca, or a single exit and entrance for sperm,
eggs, and waste. The male brings his sperm to the
female cloaca. The sperm fertilizes the egg. Then the
Chemical hard-shelled egg develops within the female. The hard-
Level Internal Fertilization
shelled eggs have a fluid-filled amnion, a thin
membrane forming a closed sac around the embryo.

Egg 8 to 10 days before the egg is ready to be laid, the

female is afflicted with a condition known as egg
lethargy.

Organelle Acceleration process Early hour after the egg is laid, thousands of cells rapidly
Level multiply and organized inside the protective shell.
once the egg is laid

Birds spinal cord, ears, and eyes takes shape. Its vascular
Day 2 and circulatory systems are established. And its heart
beats for the first time.
Cell
Level The head of the embryo starts to arch into the fetal
Hour-46 position.

Throughout the second day, a network of

Tissue blood vessels branches from the embryo into
Level the yolk. They will transport vital nutrients
back to the growing organism.
The chick must start using its own lungs to breath rather
than relying on the oxygen it has been receiving through
the pores of the eggshell. An air cell exists inside the top
Throughout the of the egg, a layer that is more substantial towards the
Organ incubation for 2 end of incubation that at the beginning due to the shift
Level months in the distribution of various fluids as the embryo grows.
The chick must break through this air cell to take a
breath that will provide it with the necessary energy to
push through the rest of the hatching process.

Organ The chick absorbs the remaining yolk contents into its
System abdomen through a stalk that provides a direct channel
Level between the yolk and the chick’s small intestine. This
yolk sac will provide food for the young bird during the
first days of its life.

Once the chick has successfully

Organism completed these processes, it’s ready
Level to start breaking through the shell.

How the Philippine Eagle became an endangered?

More than 70 percent of the Philippine’s forests have
been cleared since the 1970s to make room for urban
and agricultural expansion, pushing the eagles higher
into the mountains and fragmenting their available
habitat. Habitat loss due to the expansion of monocrop
plantations, logging, resource extraction such as mining,
an human exploding population and increasingly-
destructive weather patterns brought on by climate
change.
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Bird Reproduction. Retrieved on February 7, 2021 from
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Hanover Bald Eagle Blog. The Hardship of Hatching
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Philippine eagle. Retrieved on February 7, 2021 from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_eagle
Rare footage of a Philippine eagle family over the course of five months shows
parents intensively caring for a single eaglet and the eaglet learning to fly.
Retrieved on February 7, 2021 from
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/philippine-eagle-chick-
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FLIGHT: The Genius of Birds - Embryonic development. Retrieved on February
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