Bald Eagle Tracking Project - Week 23

The immature bald eagles have headed south. Yellow moved to South Carolina, after spending last week in North Carolina. He is in the Cooper River/Lake Marion area. Red also moved to South Carolina this week. She started the week in the Tar River area of North Carolina and ended the week along the Santee River near the Francis Marion National Forest.

Green started the week at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, then moved south to the Maryland/Virginia border of the Eastern Shore near the mouth of the Pocomoke River. Blue was the only immature eagle that did not move this week. She stayed in the Colonial Beach area of Virginia.The preceeding text was provided by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Please 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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This map was posted on 11/14.
With each update, new locations may not be available for each of the four birds. To conserve battery power and reduce satellite communications costs the transmitters are not on continuously.

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