{"id":617782,"date":"2026-05-01T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:54:09","slug":"big-bear-eaglets-officially-have-names-sandy-and-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617782\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bear eaglets officially have names: Sandy and Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BIG BEAR, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; The two eaglets of beloved Big Bear bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow have officially been named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The chicks will be called Luna and Sandy, which is a nod to Sandy Steers, the former executive director of nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley who helped chronicle the lives of the bald eagles. Steers died in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Friday, the nonprofit, which owns the live cameras near the eagles&#8217; nest,<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXzWj9kDBv0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> announced the eaglet&#8217;s names<\/a> that were chosen by local students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Big Bear eaglets officially have names: Sandy and Luna\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19015327_050126-kabc-big-bear-eaglets.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sandy was the most popular name entered with 3,706 of the 63,915 names submitted, the nonprofit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Please know that although Sandy would not have wanted us to outright name one of the eaglets Sandy, she would have been honored that you and the students went through the process and named one of the 2026 eaglets after her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/big-bear-bald-eagle-cam-updates-jackie-shadows-first-eaglet-hatches-second-expected-hatch-soon\/18843393\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eaglets hatched<\/a> over Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIG BEAR, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; The two eaglets of beloved Big Bear bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[267950,79,201],"class_list":["post-617782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-267950","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}