A 38-year-old bald eagle — the oldest ever in U.S. — found in NY
Source: Albany TimesUnion
A 38-year-old bald eagle was found dead outside Rochester earlier this month, and its band number showed that it’s the oldest one ever found in the wild in the nation — by five years — and was raised in New York in the late 1970s.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it responded to a report of a dead eagle in Henrietta, Monroe County, on June 2, after it was hit by a car.
“This record eagle is a testament to the diligent conservation and restoration work done under New York’s Bald Eagle Restoration Program,” said the DEC’s executive deputy commissioner, Marc Gerstman, in a statement. “It’s truly noteworthy that this eagle lived a long life and thrived in New York, returning to his New York nest site to continue breeding.”
According to the banding records, the bird was a nestling brought from Lake Puposky in northern Minnesota as part of New York’s Bald Eagle Restoration Program in 1977. It was one of only five young eagles raised and released at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in the second year of the program outside Syracuse.
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Sad that the poor bird died from being hit by a vehicle, but it does show NY's eagle restoration program works.
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...which has been at the forefront of Bald Eagle preservation for decades now. It works, as I have seen literally DOZENS of Bald Eagles over the years.
Of COURSE it works! 
Howdy neighbor.
