Getting Started

• How to Get Started: Orientation and Key Activities
• Making Sense of Journey North Maps: Core Journaling Questions

Tracking Bald Eagle Migration

• Eagles and Salmon in Alaska 2012: Interconnected Migrations
  • Gallery
• Keep a Bald Eagle Migration Journal
• Meet the Bald Eagles
• Looking at Fall Migration
• High, High Tech: The Science of Satellite Tracking
• How to Map Satellite Telemetry Data
• What Time is it, Satellite Time?
• Light for Flight--But How Much Do Satellite Transmitters Weigh?
• Satellite Backpack Fashion Show
• Biologist Peter Nye's Research Goals
• Birds and the Built-in Barometer
• Using the GPS for Tracking Bald Eagles
• Latitude, Longitude and Distance Traveled
• About Eagle Migration and Weather
• Calculating Distance as the Eagle Flies
• How to Use the Online Distance Calculator
• Up, Up and Away: From Skyscrapers to Outer Space
• Juvenile Behavior Mapping Study
• Suggestions for Student Research Using Satellite Data
• Home on the Winter Range

Supplemental Tracking Lessons and Information

• A Bald Eagle Alphabet Book (slideshow)
• Bald Eagles at the Monguap Dam Area
• Conflict in the Natal Nest: Story Starter
• Eagles: A Shared Resource
• Peter Nye's Career
• Video Greeting from Peter Nye
• Video Greeting from Kathy Michell & Peter Nye
• Writer in the Field: Winter Notebook
• Student Portfolios as Visual Organizers for Journey North

Characteristics

• Focus on Feathers (slideshow)
• Looking at Eaglets: An anatomy for survival
• Bald Eagle Adaptations From Head to Toe
• Vision: An In-Depth Look at Eagle Eyes
• Eagle Talons: Get a Grip!
• Eagle Talons versus Beaks
• How Eagles Fly
• Bald Eagle Adaptations & Human Inventions: The Match Game
• Do Eagles Bite Biologists? The Power of Beaks and Talons
• Comparing Male and Female Eagles

Reproduction

• About Eagle Nests
• Let's Visit a Nest! Field Notes by Remote (NestCam)
• Activity Budgets: A Technique for Studying Animal Behavior
• Raising Eagles: Chore Chart for Fathers and Mothers
• Juvenile Eagle Behavior

Food

• The Bald Eagle Diet
• The Food Chain That Nature Built
• A Food Chain vs. a Niche: Understanding Terminology
• Frozen Dinners: The Challenge of Finding Food in the Winter
• Generalist or Specialist? Take a Peek at the Beaks

Conservation

• The Conservation History of Bald Eagles
• DDT and Bald Eagles
• How Much is a Part Per Million?
• Suggestions for Analyzing Bald Eagle Population Data