Orphaned juvenile bald eagles rehabilitated in Anchorage return to the wild during festival in Haines

A woman reacts after opening the door to a release box and seeing a bald eagle step outside during a release in Klukwan on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. Katie Thorman, rehabilitation assistant for Bird TLC, right, helped care for the bird since it was an eaglet and watched the bird take flight as Ali Gustavson, American Bald Eagle Foundation education manager, watches after helping with the release.

Ali Gustavson looks into a carrier holding a bald eagle as she helps transport the rehabilitated birds from the Haines airport. With attention cast upward to the newly freed birds, Atwood and Thorman became emotional and embraced next to the empty boxes. An eaglet found in Yakutat is photographed a few days after arriving at Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage where it was rehabilitated until its release on Nov. 12, 2022.

“We have a sense of stewardship and responsibility to pay this back and do what we can for any individual bird to get them back out into the wild and give them that second chance,” she said. The two young eagles were released near an abundance of resources: a late fall salmon run, plenty of protected perches and thousands of adult bald eagles to learn from.

This year’s numbers were significantly lower than previous daily averages from around 1,000 to 1,500 eagles, she said. This year’s peak number was 418 eagles, counted on Oct. 21. Evans says the counts don’t correlate to bald eagle population size but rather salmon runs.

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“Most of the time with an eagle release, it’s like, ‘Good luck, hope I never see you again,’” one Bird TLC staffer said. “Caring for something since it was an infant, it’s different.”

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