The Mud Bay Chick was a young bald eagle who was banded and received tracker TERF17 while still a nestling. He or she was the second eagle to use that tracker, so we initially used the designation TERF17a for the young eagle. It was a hard year for young eagles in that area, and the Mud Bay Chick died before he or she was old enough to leave the area. The map at the bottom of this post shows the tracker data; I'm not sure if the youngster made a few flights, or if it only looks that way because of the margin for error when the data is uploaded. I do know that the farthest data point is no more than about 30 meters or 100 feet from the nest.
Because the eagle never traveled out of its home territory, it really doesn't fit in with the tracking project. The tracker has recently been redeployed on a new eagle (see viewtopic.php?f=95&t=724), and that eagle will be designated TERF17a. I am changing the designation for the Mud Bay Chick to TERF17x to help myself (JudyB) remember what that tracker was doing sitting in a tree for six weeks, since the master map shows everywhere the tracker has been (including the months it was stored at Hancock Wildlife headquarters). And I'm giving the young eagle a name - Mud Bay Chick.
BAEA23-06 - TERF17a TERF17x
Banding Date: June 15, 2023
USFW Band #: 0829-01874
ID: Blue marker K over 0 on left leg
Age: pre-fledge
Eye color:
Sex:
The tracker was previously assigned to young female adult TERF17 (her page is here) who sadly died in early May 2023. The map below shows where the tracker was when it was on the Mud Bay Chick; the combined map of all the eagles we’re tracking shows everywhere the tracker has been.