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Between 2017 and 2023, the Arizona-based research team used satellite transmitters to follow 24 newly fledged Bald Eagles and two nonbreeding adults and to map how they moved within and beyond the state.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

And the models follow each species' full annual life cycle, from breeding to fall migration to nonbreeding grounds, and back north again during spring migration.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

A spare nonbreeding adult can help guard pups and hunt for food.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2023

Reproduction is the province of a pack’s alpha pair, while the nonbreeding adults contribute unstintingly to pup protection and feeding.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2022

We suspect that many of the birds present in Texas in June and July, together with those recorded by us in Tamaulipas in July, are nonbreeding, summering individuals.

From Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, M?xico by Johnston, Richard F.