TERF07 (“Arctic Gal”)

TERF07 was tagged and banded on December 12, 2020, at the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, BC. She appears to be female based on measurements taken at the time of banding; her USFW band number is 0709-00285 and she has a more readable blue band on her left leg with the characters H over 4. TERF07’s age at banding appeared to be about 3-1/2 years old, so she likely hatched in the spring of 2017. Myles and David noted multiple stress bars in her feathers, which can indicate lack of food, stress or illness when the feather was being formed.

Please visit our Hancock Wildlife Forum thread for more information about what TERF07 has been doing since then.

Updates –

June 1, 2022 – TERF07 is now five years old and back in the far north for the second summer since she was tagged.  She is now a full adult, though she probably has some dark spots on her head and tail as they transition to full white.  I don’t actually know if eagles nest this far north or if she’ll be moving further south when she’s ready to settle down – something we’re hoping to learn as we continue to follow her travels.  And she now has a name.  Those of us who have been posting updates on the HWF forum (link) have been calling her “Arctic Gal” informally since she first flew so much further north than the other eagles we are tracking, and now it’s official – she’s Arctic Gal!  (added by JudyB)

Meet (and adopt!) the Eagles we are currently tracking:

BETA04/Loki

BETA04 is a very special eagle to many of us because we watched her grow up on the Surrey Reserve ...
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BACA03/Croydon Sr (tracked since 12/4/2018)

BACA03 was originally banded in 2009; he fell from his nest in June of that year and was hand reared ...
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BETA03 (tracked since 11/26/20)

BETA03 was tagged and banded on November 26, 2020, at the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, BC. He appeared to be ...
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TERF02

TERF02 was tagged and banded on December 12, 2018, at the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, BC. He appeared to be ...
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TERF06

TERF06 was tagged and banded on November 29, 2020, at the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, BC. She appeared to be ...
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TERF07/Arctic Gal

TERF07 was tagged and banded on December 12, 2020, at the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, BC. She appears to be ...
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TERF08

TERF08 was tagged and banded on December 6, 2020, at the Vancouver Landfill in Delta, BC.  He appeared to be ...
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TERF09

TERF09 is a mature male eagle who arrived at OWL - the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta BC - ...
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TERF10/Parksville

TERF10 is a juvenile bald eagle who hatched in 2021 in a nest in Parksville on Vancouver Island. They were ...
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TERF11/Vanier Park

TERF11 is a nestling who fell from his/her nest in Vanier Park in Vancouver, BC; he was rescued on June ...
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TERF12/Hastings

TERF12 fledged from his nest on Hastings Street in Vancouver, BC, (near the Pacific Northwest Exhibition) and subsequently crashed into ...
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TERF13/Pixel

TERF13 and TERF14 were both rescued as eaglets from thick vegetation after their nest near the Boundary Bay Airport fell ...
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TERF14/Jpeg

TERF13 and TERF14 were both rescued as eaglets from thick vegetation after their nest near the Boundary Bay Airport fell ...
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TERF13+TERF14

TERF13 ("Pixel") and TERF14 ("Jpeg") were both rescued as eaglets from thick vegetation after their nest near the Boundary Bay ...
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TERF15/Croydon Jr

TERF15 was tagged and banded on August 18, 2021, at the OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehabilitation Society facility in Delta, BC ...
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TERF16/TEUS03

TERF16 was originally tagged as TEUS03 on January 8, 2019, after spending about 6 weeks at the OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) ...
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TERF17

TERF17 is a young female adult eagle who was tagged November 5, 2021, at the OWL (Orphaned Wildlife) Rehabilitation Society ...
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TERF19

TERF19 is a bald eagle who was tagged in March 2022. We are hoping to get more information about him ...
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TERF20

TERF20 is a bald eagle who was tagged in early March 2022. We are hoping to get more information about ...
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TERF21

TERF21 is a bald eagle who was tagged earlier in 2022. We are hoping to get more information about him ...
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TERF22

TERF22 is an adult bald eagle who was tagged in May 2022. We are hoping to get more information about ...
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TERF26/Annie

TERF26 is a female bald eagle who has been nesting west of Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, BC, since the ...
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TERF27

TERF27 is a male bald eagle who was tagged before being released on December 2, 2022, by the Orphaned Wildlife ...
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