Bald Eagle Tracking Project - April 2004

In April, Green remained on the Rappahannock River in Virgina. Green has spent most of the last two years in this area of the Chesapeake, near the Maryland/Virginia border. Yellow remained in northeast North Carolina and has yet to return to the Chesapeake Bay for an extended period of time this year. Red spent most of the month near Cape Canaveral in Florida where she has been since last fall.

But on about April 20th she began the long haul North back to the Chesapeake region. Between the 20th and the 22nd Red traveled 355 miles, and she traveled 610 miles by April 25th. On the 25th she reached the Chesapeake region and as of May 1st she reached the northern end of the Chesapeake near the Sassafras River. Not far from where she spent all of last summer!

Pease visit our Eagle Map Gallery to see other maps of the eagle movements. The gallery contains maps of the eagle movements plotted on shaded relief maps that show local topography as well as eagle movements shown on a satellite image of the bay region which illustrates the types of landcover the eagles are living near.

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Eagle Movements April 2004

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With each update, new locations may not be available for each of the birds. To conserve battery power and reduce satellite communications costs the transmitters are not on continuously.

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