Migration Update: April 30, 2008

Today's Report Includes:

  • This Week's Maps, Data, and Highlights >>
  • Take a Look! 2008 Eagle S28 >>
  • Explore: Eagle Adaptations and Human Inventions >>
  • Try This! Build Your Own Eagle Glossary >>
  • Year End Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts
  • Links: This Week's Bald Eagle Resources >>

18-Day-old Eaglet with Parents
Courtesy FirstLight Eagles Online
Maps, Data, and Highlights

Spring fever has kept eagles U21 and U25 on the move again this week. Neither bird seems to be traveling in a straight line. Check the maps to see their zig-zag movements.
For the first time S28 is moving from the site where she has stayed all winter. Does this mean she will continue to travel north?
The Golden eagle, R24, and Bald eagle U27 are sitting tight - maybe on their nests.
More of the migration will be revealed as it happens next week, our final week of the spring season for tracking these magnificent birds.

Golden Eagle


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Bald Eagles

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  • This week's migration maps
    • Bald Eagles >>
    • Golden Eagle >>
  • Bald Eagle Data >>
  • Questions about this week's map >>
Take a Look! 2008 Eagle S28
This entire season we have watched our newest Bald Eagle, S28 with great interest. Where will this bird migrate, we wonder? She was captured in January, in the SE corner of New York State, but has sent signals from the same location since then. Just this past week she has crossed the river into Canada. Will she stay there or go further? What do you think?
Explore: Eagle Adaptations and Human Inventions

The Match Game
The most important part of a human body is the brain, which allows us to solve a lot of problems and adapt to a lot of different environments. Let's think of some human inventions and how they help us do some of the things eagles can do because of their physical adaptations.

  • Lesson and Worksheet >>

Photo: Jon McRay
Try This! Build Your Own Eagle Glossary

Scientists often use a specialized language to describe their work. Their careful observations are filled with vocabary that we have shared with you this season.

How many new vocabulary words have you learned this year tracking the eagles? You may be surprised! Read through the 2008 Bald Eagle Updates >> and select words to create your own eagle glossary.

Did you learn any new ones from today’s report? How about fidelity, or critical habitat?

* Here is a list to get you thinking >>


Build your list in a notebook or illustrate words using a tri-fold.
Year-end Evaluation: Please Share Your Thoughts! >>

Will you take a few minutes to complete our Year-end Evaluation?

Only with your help can we document Journey North's reach, impact and value. The information you provide is critical for planning new initiatives and for improving Journey North. Thank you!

Year-end Evaluation >>

Links: This Week's Eagle Resources
  • Student Portfolios: Organize What You Learned >>
  • Lesson: Eagles: A Shared Resource >>
  • Juvenile Eagle Behavior: Oh, Grow Up! >>
  • Journey North for Kids: Eagles >>
  • Journal: Bald Eagle Journal >>
More Eagle Lessons and Teaching Ideas!

The Final Bald Eagle Migration Update Will Be Posted on May 7, 2008.