Twice a year, thousands of golden eagles weave their way through the Peace region.
“It’s magical,” Peter Sherrington, researcher and founder of the Rocky Mountain Eagle Research Foundation told CBC’s Audrey MacKinnon.
“We’ve seen as many as 200 in an hour come through.”
Because of the large number of birds flying through the area, Sherrington is calling on northern British Columbians to help count and age the birds, with the goal of getting more information about the breeding and mortality rates of the population.
Sherrington’s interest in the birds started in 1992, while he was working with a friend in Alberta’s Kananaskis Valley. Over the course of a single day
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