BALD EAGLE NESTING IN IOWA

As you can see, the eagle has shown a dramatic increase in nesting territories in Iowa. The number of occupied territories doesn't necessarily mean that a pair of eagles actually bred and produced young. Immature birds may pair up and begin building nests before they are physically able to breed. We still count these as nesting territories, however. The number of young produced does not necessarily mean those birds lived to leave the nest. The number of birds fledged may be something less than the graph indicates.

In 1996, bald eagles established nesting territories in Allamakee, Appanoose, Blackhawk, Buena Vista, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Fayette, Howard, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Jones, Louisa, Muscatine, Sac and Winneshiek, counties.