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Berkshire Bird Paradise Sanctuary
and Botanical Gardens
Golden Eagle release

Banding and installing a transmitter for tracking the Eagle, the transmitter will fall off next Spring when new feathers grow in.
Banding Dottie	Peter Nye from the New York State Endangered Species Program, puts a leg band on Dottie. While local TV news crew records and watches.
Pete and Dottie	Peter Dubacher with Dottie getting a medical checkup and getting ready for release. She passed with flying colors ---
Physical checkup	Dottie get a clean bill of health before releasing her into the wilds.
Banding	Banding Dottie for identification porposes.
Installing tracking device	Adding a radio transmitter to the wing, it will fall off when the bird moults. We can tell when dottie is in the area and follow her movements, Thanks to The New York State Endangered Species Program. This was really reassuring, we could tell when she was near by and she visited us often when she was first released.

Berkshire Bird Paradise 43 Red Pond Road Petersburgh, New York 12138 (518) 279-3801 Peter Dubacher, Director		Bird Articles