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Just got this today.... This link is a live bear cam set up in a den in Mn. She should be having cub's in mid-Jan....


http://www.zaplive.tv/web/wwbearden01?s ... &start=258


Live Black Bear Den Webcam
Press Release: January 8, 2010, PixController, Inc.
For the first time ever the entire world will have access to a streaming live webcam feed from inside the den of a wild hibernating female black bear named Lily.

Located near Ely, MN, researchers say there is a better than average chance she will give birth to 1-pound cubs around mid Jan. The birth of bear cubs has never been filmed in the wild.

Film/video producer Doug Hajicek, in conjunction with the North American Bear Center and PixController, Inc., is embarking on this second attempt to do it.

Dr Lynn Rogers bear biologist and Doug Hajicek a History Channel producer will be teaming up for the den camera installation and will maintain it throughout the winter of 2010.

Bill Powers of PixController Inc. designed the custom webcam streaming video and audio technology. Powers is a
long-time collaborator on Hajicek´s History Channel series designed one of the "25 Most Interesting Webcams" for 2007 awarded by EarthCam.

In an attempt to film it in 1999, no cubs were born.That bear, Whiteheart, captured the imagination and hearts of people everywhere through a web feed on Discovery.com
and through a documentary "The Man Who Walks With Bears," on Animal Planet. With every passing day, web viewers
and researchers watched with increasing anticipation until it was evident the time for giving birth had passed.

The Whiteheart project was the first use a live webcam as a primary research tool. Now, with improvements in technology from Bill Powers of PixController, Inc., Hajicek´s team, along with biologists Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield from the North American Bear Center, are eager to "turn on
the new Lily web-cam." Viewers, including the researchers, will be able to witness Lily´s undisturbed activities 24/7.

The camera will broadcast a live video feed in infra-red (black & white) in order not to disturb the bears. A sound MIC has also been installed in the den site.

A research cabin, which is about 150 yards from the black bear den site, streams the audio and video feed via an Internet connection to WildEarth.TV out of South Africa.

WildEarth.TV was founded in 2006 by Emily and Graham Wallington with a vision to create a LIVE wildlife
webcam channel that simultaneously broadcast on the Internet.


Drawing from their experience, Rogers and Hajicek note that "it´s astounding how active hibernating bears are in their dens." Before a den cam allowed them to watch an undisturbed bear, they thought hibernating bears simply slept.


Lily is the 2-year-old daughter from June´s second litter. June´s will turn 9 in the middle of January. June´s mother Shadow will turn 20 at the same time.

Shadow, the grandmother of Lily, is the matriarch of the bear clan that lives in this area.Bears seldom use the same
den two years in a row.

Lily is part of a long-term study of black bear ecology and behavior being conducted by the North American Bear Center. Lily is still within her mother´s territory, so if she has cubs it will be interesting to see how everything works out after the bears emerge from their dens in April.

The den is near Ely in northeastern Minnesota, USA, less than 30 miles from the Canadian border.

Hajicek has been pioneering the use of wildlife cams since 1999, being the first to videotape a giant squid. To get that shot, Hajicek used another squid as a "Trojan camera
carrier"to carry his camera down to the inky abyss. Hajicek has placed cameras on rats, wild hogs, wild dogs, sharks,
beaver houses, and below Lake Superior, giving people peeks into worlds seldom seen.

PixController, Inc based out of Murrysville, PA, is a dynamic, high-technology company that designs and manufactures state-of-the-art covert remote surveillance systems. Powers designed the first ever use of remote motion-activated wireless video cameras. This design enabled webcams to be installed in remote areas powered by batteries and charged by solar panels.

thanks

Just noticed that the footage appear's to be in a loop.... Found out you have tp register for it to be actually live.... Which is no biggie.....

She gave birth on Jan 22, 2010

Quoted from a yahoo buzz website:

Lily the bear gives birth

The Minnesota black bear is the subject of a research study — and fascination on the Web. Lily may live in a cave, but she's also very much present on Facebook and Twitter. The three-year-old has been trying to hibernate — and gestate — while her daily activities were caught on tape 24/7. So when she gave birth to cub number one, the Web went wild. You can see the video, below. Biologists who noted her contortions concluded that congratulations were in order. Although Lily is pretty private, you can hear the first sounds of her baby. Searches in the last week for "lily the bear" shot up over 1,600%. Those searching for Lily's bundle of joy wanted to know "did lily the bear have cubs yet" and how to access the "bear cam."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNtANbW5vE