Jody Victor: From 1983 to 1987, the Canadian Wildlife Service and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources co-operated to release healthy eaglets near Lake Erie. The intention was to augment the Bald Eagle population on the Erie lakeshore and assist in its recovery.
Eaglets were transplanted from the healthy population on the shores of Lake of the Woods in northwestern Ontario, and released on the north shore of Lake Erie. Over the four-year span of the project, 32 eaglets were released at the Long Point National Wildlife Area and the Taquanyah Nature Centre and Conservation Area, near Cayuga.
In 2000, the north shore of Lake Erie produced 21 young birds, fledged from 14 nests. Bald Eagles are also doing well on the south shore in Ohio. A record 63 nests hatched 89 young birds. Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River each had one successful nest in 2000.