Loud Eagle Vocals Clear Runway: Close-up & Flight! 🦅 Mississippi Flyway ~ explore.org 9-27-26

An incredible few minutes of a close-up look, and flight of a Bald Eagle at the Mississippi Flyway. 😍 This feature highlight starts with powerful eagle vocalizations very nearby—which instantly causes all the local shorebirds to clear the runway! Watch as the camera operator beautifully zooms in on the eagle and tracks the eagle's flight! ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:00 - Waterfowl fly by as the Eagle begins vocalizing nearby, Cormorants and Seagulls disperse from the mudflat! Geese honk down front...🔊 0:22 - Eagle flies to the mudflat, picks up a stick 0:39 - Eagle "trots" to a nearby branch at the water's edge, feaks its beak (cleans) 2:11 - Cam op zooms in closer! 🦅❤️ 8:46 - Eagle moves and perches on the branch 10:58 - Eagle departs, cam op follows! 11:24 - Follow closely—it gets easily lost with all the other birds in flight 🧐 12:08 - Eagle approaches tree line on the opposite shore 12:36 - Flying along the top of the trees now and over the rooftops of the houses! 🏘️🦅 A huge thank you to the dedicated volunteer camera operators at explore.org for tracking and capturing these incredible moments! 🌿 ABOUT THIS CAMERA: Located in the Upper Mississippi National Fish and Wildlife Refuge on Lake Onalaska, this live Flyway Cam offers a front-row seat to the massive bird migrations. This "Driftless Area" island is a vital stopover for millions of birds as they navigate the Mississippi River Flyway. In partnership with the Raptor Resource Project and explore.org, this camera documents a spectacular variety of river wildlife, from Bald Eagles and American White Pelicans to Sandhill Cranes and Tundra Swans. 👉 LIVE Mississippi River Flyway Cam: Bird Migration & Bald Eagles | explore.org https://www.youtube.com/live/feR0k8-n... #BaldEagle #EagleVocals #MissFlyway #ExploreOrg #BirdWatching #WetlandWildlife #EagleCam #RaptorResourceProject #NatureDocumentary #Shorebirds