Aroostook - Bald and Golden Eagles of the Chesapeake Bay, USA

A project of The Center for Conservation Biology.

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Aroostook (Bald Eagle) is 652 km from Caribou

Background

This bald eagle is a winter visitor to the Chesapeake Bay. In spring, this eagle flies home to Maine and Canada for the summer months, a distance of over 800 miles. In November, this eagle will return to the Bay to hunt wintering waterfowl along the many tributaries of the Bay. We captured this eagle using a rocket net baited with a road killed deer. After fitting the eagle with a solar powered GPS transmitter, we released it on the shoreline of the Bay.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
• Sea surface temperature is derived from NOAA's GOES Daily Sea Surface Temperature data.

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