A study of the Crowned Eagles around Mbombela/Nelspruit was started by the Mpumalanga Crowned Eagle Working Group in 2007 and is ongoing. The focus of the study has been on determining the population size and density and whether the population is a source or a sink. In other words, is their population a stable one producing a surplus of chicks or is the population shrinking.
To-date the information obtained from monitoring the nests tends to indicate that the population is healthy producing a surplus of chicks. The known nests are used regularly every alternative year unless they collapse which they can do after storms or after being disturbed and then being abandoned.
This Crowned Eagle Monitoring Project (with the nest camera EagleCam2) is a collaborative project of AgriStar Holdings (Pty) Ltd and the Mpumalanga Crowned Eagle Working Group.