Bird Watching: Bald Eagle - Our National Symbol - Vol. #4, 1 by linthicum

linthicum wrote:
One of the extra joys of photographing birds is when you are able to capture a tagged bird. This year, I have photographed 6 Snow Geese and able to obtain background information on all 6. On Friday, I photographed my first tagged (readable) Bald Eagle with a blue tag S-47. He also has a transmitter on him. His name is 'Hudson'.

This bald eagle is a winter visitor to the Chesapeake Bay. He was banded as a nestling by the NY Department of Environmental Conservation in 2007. So, he is about 2 1/2 years old. In November, this eagle flies to the Bay to hunt wintering waterfowl along the many tributaries of the Bay. Hudson was captured on 1/26/08 in Maryland using a rocket net baited with a road killed deer. After fitting him with a solar powered GPS transmitter, he was released on the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay.

He is part of a project of the Center for Conservation Biology out of the College of William & Mary, in Virginia. I just received this information via e-mail after reporting the tag to the Center.