Georgia bald eagles bouncing back from bird flu and storm damage

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Georgia’s bald eagles are having an average nesting year – and that’s good news, according to the scientists who study them.

“It was just a few years ago that bald eagle nesting on the Georgia coast was devastated by the outbreak of avian influenza,” said Georgia Department of Natural Resources biologist Bob Sargent, who leads the state’s bald eagle nest surveys.