{"id":618268,"date":"2026-05-02T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618268\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:25:08","slug":"big-bear-eagles-jackie-and-shadows-chicks-get-official-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618268\/","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":2,"featured_media":618269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7501,231976,268139,42502,13794,14185,83671,233395,15798,268138,79,83672,16653,22337,19043,268140,201],"class_list":["post-618268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bald-eagle","tag-big-bear-valley","tag-chick","tag-eaglet","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-jackie","tag-luna","tag-name","tag-sandy","tag-science","tag-shadow","tag-thousand","tag-viewer","tag-vote","tag-widespread-attention","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618268","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=618268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}