Eagle Update 2008

Eagle Update 2008

Neil Harri contacted Bonnie Hay on May 19th to say that the aerial eagle survey count was in progress and that two eaglets were seen in a nest on the East side of Gratiot Lake. If you have additional information, please contact Bonnie Hay.

Annual Bald Eagle Nesting Census of Keweenaw Peninsula Nests
Year	Productive Nests	Eaglets Born
2007	20	26
2006	16	26
2005	20	29
2004	12	16
2003	14	21
2002	10	19

2004 Gratiot Eaglets

A good eagle info site is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 Endangered Species Website http://midwest.fws.gov/Endangered/

Click Here to see a slideshow of the banding of the 2003 eaglet.

Click here to see a short excerpt from this year's eagle banding video. (1 MB QuickTime)

Click here to view the archived info from the 2002 eagle banding.

Click here to view the archived info from the 2001 eagle banding.

Additional Eagle Links

http://www.nwf.org/baldeagle/

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3520id.html (USGS Eagle website)

http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3313_3686_3728-32394--,00.html
(MDEQ website with data on contaminant loads in Michigan eagles

GRATIOT LAKE CONSERVANCY
http://www.gratiotlakeconservancy.org

Contact GLC Program Director: director@gratiotlakeconservancy.org
(Please put "Gratiot Lake" in subject line.)