PhotoBlog - bald

Feb

2011

10:23pm, EST

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Robin Corcoran via AP

This Jan. 24, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a female eagle who died after being electrocuted in Kodiak, Alaska.

Biologist confirms dead eagle as 1 of Alaska's oldest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Kodiak Island bald eagle survived 25 years of Alaska hazards but met an unfortunate fate last month on the crossbar of a utility pole: electrocution.

A band attached to its leg showed the bird to be the second-oldest bald eagle documented in Alaska and one of the oldest in the country.

"It would be, based on the bird-banding record that I've seen, one of the top 10 oldest birds ever recorded," said Robin Corcoran, a wildlife biologist from the Kodiak Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Read the full AP story from here.