A banded bald eagle that was electrocuted on a power pole in downtown Kodiak in late January may have been the oldest ever documented in Alaska. The eagle was at least 25 years old, a biologist said, based on estimates of its age when it was banded on nearby Woody Island in 1989 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, reports the Kodiak Daily Mirror.
The eagle was already an adult when a team working in the aftermath of the spill banded it on Woody Island in 1989, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge wildlife biologist Robin Corcoran said. That means it was at least 25 years old when it was electrocuted on a power pole Jan. 24.
The current official record for oldest bald eagle known in Alaska is 21 years, Corcoran said. In November a bald eagle struck and killed by a car in New Brunswick, Canada, was found to be 32 years, 10 months old.
Read more about a recent string of eagle deaths in the Kodiak area at the Daily Mirror.
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