University Daliv Kansan, February 10, 1983
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Bald eagles flock back to Clinton Lake
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
The bald eagle swooped above the trees and headed out over the frozen water of Clinton Lake. Hanging in the wind with outstretched wings, it circled
The eagle was not full-grown. Most of its body was brown, with just a touch of white on its tail. It soared over Clinton Domburg in the east over the wet corrupted terrain.
The Lawrence area is the winter home for many of our national bird.
LAST MONTH, three men — David Seibel, Lawrence graduate student in ornithology, James Honacki, a pilot; and Galen Pittman, member of the Jayhawk Chapter of the Audubon Society — spotted 51 bald eagles in the Clinton, Perry and Kansas river areas. That was more, Seibel said, than have
ever been spoted there. The men spent an hour flying in an airplane to count the bc.3 eagles for the National Wildlife Federation.
Kevin Kennedy, chairman of the local Sierra Club, said this week that about 16 members spotted 12 bald eagles along the Kansas River and Perry Lake on a recent outing. He said they saw only seven birds last year.
He said the Sierra Club had made the field trips since 1979 so that people who had never seen a bald eagle could see the birds in their natural habitat.
AS EARLY AS THE 1850s, bald eagles have been reported spending their winters in Kansas. Lecompte, 10 miles northwest of Lawrence, was originally named Bald Eagle because eagles roosted along the Kansas River.
Now the eagles, which are an endangered species protected by federal law, can be found at the Clinton and Perry man-made reservoirs and
"Now, because we have these big reservoirs, they'll stick around here, and this will be an important wintering area for some time to come," he said.
along the Kansas River, said Howard Levenson, Lawrence graduate student and ornithologist.
DURING THE winter, bald eagles prey mainly on injured and sick ducks that are trying to keep a water hole free of ice.
Robert Mengel, ornithologist and professor of systematics and ecology, said females were the larger of the species, as with all predatory birds. The northern eagles, which are found in Kansas, can have up to an 8.5-foot wingspan and can weigh 12 pounds.
The eagles came from northern states and Canada in mid-December, searching for fish and waterfowl that gather at open areas of water not covered with ice. Bald eagles will return north in March, he said.
Young birds are brown and unspectacular, he said, and it takes four to five years for them to develop their red color. To protect white plumage on the head and tail
Lavenson said the birds were making a slow recovery from pesticides and chemical pollutants.
ACCORDING TO the December 1980 Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin, the number of eagles in Lawrence has increased. Lawrence area members of the National Audubon Society counted three bald eagles in December 1970. This year, Seibel said, the Audubon Society reported 35 eagles.
A 1980 census reported 324 baird
egrets in the county and 12,199 in the
Cape Union Region.
Levenson said the bald eagle was the only eagle found exclusively in North America, and most were found in Alaska and northern Canada.
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KU RUBY CLUB will practice at ? p.m. in Allen Field House.
ECKANKAR will have an open discussion about Consciousness, the Key to Life, at 7:30 p.m. in Parlor A of the Kansas Union.
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KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
GAY AND LESBIAN SERVICES will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
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SIGMA DELTA CHI will sponsor a talk by Lew Ferguson, Associated Press Topica Bureau Chief, at 3:15 p.m. in 100 Fifth Hall
THE BIOLOGY CLUE will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the
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A MINI-RETREAT. "Understanding the Season of Lent," will be at 7 p.m. at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
THE KU JAZZ ENSEMBLE I will perform a student recital at 8 p.m. in Swartwhot Recital Hall.
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A machine that allows patients to administer morphine to themselves is good in theory, an anesthesiologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday.
European doctors have used the technique for 15 years, he said, but PCA machines cannot be manufactured in the United States because they have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Self-administered narcotics help ease postoperative pain
He said he was now seeking FDA approval.
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He said that 400 patients at the University of Kentucky Medical Center had tried PCA. Some patients who have used the machine said they would delay their other operations until they could have been at university's three machines, he said.
Lynn Pippin, the anesthesiologist, said that patient control analyses (PCA) would quicken pain relief for postoperative patients, but that for other types of pain, such as chronic pain, its use might cause addiction.
Kenneth Wertzberger, a Lawrence physician, said the technique was not used at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, but narcotics and nerve stimulators were used to brain to secure its pain killers, endorphins, were widely used.
Pippin said the new process would eliminate waiting for a nurse to administer the narcotic and would save time it took for the drug to take effect.
The most common method at the Med Center for postoperative pain relief is an injection by a nurse of a morphine or demerol, into the muscles, she said.
David Graves, a pharmacology physician at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, said he was experien- tive with PCA and had had amazing results.
PCA allows the patient to regulate a one milligram dose of morphine directly into the vein at the onset of
Graves said patients using PCA remained more alert, slept better at night, had more pain relief, used less morphine and felt more control over their treatment than with conventional methods.
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