Raptor Resource Project volunteers place a transmitter on a second eaglet

Now there are two.  Raptor Resource Project volunteers have placed a transmitter on a second bald eagle--this time on a male eaglet from the 2012 hatch year. 

Raptor Resource Project Director Bob Anderson says the bird has only just now dispersed from the nest area.  Wednesday morning the bird was very near the Iverson Bridge about 12 miles from the nest area. 

Last year Raptor Resource Project volunteers placed a transmitter on one of the young 2011 female eagles.  That eagle is now in Polar Bear Provincial Park on Hudson Bay.   Anderson says he would not have guessed that a Iowa fledged eagle would venture this far north above the arctic tree line.  The same eagle flew to northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin last summer and fall before returning to NE Iowa in December.