{"id":766855,"date":"2026-05-01T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:38:13","slug":"big-bear-eagles-jackie-and-shadows-chicks-get-official-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766855\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear eagles Jackie and Shadow\u2019s chicks get official names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recently hatched eaglets of Big Bear\u2019s famous bald eagle pair, Jackie and Shadow, officially have names.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Big Bear Valley <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXzWj9kDBv0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced Friday<\/a> that the two chicks have been named Sandy and Luna following a communitywide naming contest and a final vote by Big Bear Valley third-graders.<\/p>\n<p>According to Friends of Big Bear Valley, Sandy received 30 student votes and Luna received 25. The names were selected from thousands of public submissions, continuing a long-standing tradition that connects the Big Bear community with the bald eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy was the most popular name, with 3,706 of the 63,915 names entries, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie and Shadow have drawn widespread attention in recent years through a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/friendsofbigbearvalley.org\/eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live trail camera<\/a> operated by Friends of Big Bear Valley, which streams their nesting activity to thousands of viewers online. <\/p>\n<p>The name <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-16\/jackie-shadows-new-eaglets-need-names-how-to-pitch-your-ideas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sandy <\/a>was chosen in honor of Sandy Steers, longtime biologist and the eagle\u2019s live camera executive director.<\/p>\n<p>After an earlier nesting attempt was <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2026-02-02\/ravens-devour-jackie-shadows-eggs-but-more-are-still-possible\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost this season<\/a>, the successful hatching and naming of the eaglets mark a meaningful and hopeful moment for Jackie and Shadow and the many viewers who have followed their journey.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recently hatched eaglets of Big Bear\u2019s famous bald eagle pair, Jackie and Shadow, officially have names. Friends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":766856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[30253,273329,76812,73115,1532,72413,34558,54116,5204,314704,159,34559,25467,67,132,68,84665,13235,314705,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-766855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bald-eagle","9":"tag-big-bear-valley","10":"tag-chick","11":"tag-eaglet","12":"tag-friend","13":"tag-friends","14":"tag-jackie","15":"tag-luna","16":"tag-name","17":"tag-sandy","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-shadow","20":"tag-thousand","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-viewer","25":"tag-vote","26":"tag-widespread-attention","27":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}