RIP Eagle 629-03142
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:17 am
An Elegy for America's Oldest Bald Eagle
A few weeks ago, a Bald Eagle died in Henrietta, New York. It was struck by a car, probably while tearing into a roadkill rabbit carcass. This was no ordinary bird: Eagle 629-03142, age 38, was the oldest wild banded Bald Eagle on record in the United States, and an alumnus of a conservation program that brought eagles back from near-extinction in New York.