[Bristol-Birds] first Tennessee Golden Eagle captured and afixed with satellite transmitter
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:50:05 -0500
History was made Tuesday
at the North Cumberland
Wildlife Management Area
by Tennessee Wildlife
Resources Agency's Keith
Thomas and researchers
from Todd Katzner's Golden
Eagle group out of West
Virginia University.
At left is a photo of
the first Golden Eagle to
be captured and fitted with
a satellite radio transmitter
and released in Tennessee
to fly free and send back
valuable biological
information so we can better
manage the species in
Tennessee. This bird had
been frequenting Hatfield Knob,
above LaFollete in Campbell
County, TN north of Knoxville.
Katzner's researchers fired
a rocket net to get the bird
and then they placed the
transmitter on the bird and
it was released. The location of the capture had been baited by wildlifers
from TWRA's Region IV office of East Tennessee, using a deer carcass
monitored with a wildlife trail camera.
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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