Wildlife officials pleased with N.H. bald eagle season

LACONIA, N.H. --New Hampshire wildlife experts say bald eagles, once on the brink of extinction, have had a good nesting season this year in the state.

They say increases in the number of nesting pairs and offspring in recent years show bald eagles are making a comeback in New Hampshire.

Last year biologists counted a dozen nesting pairs in the state. This year they counted 14. Chris Martin, a senior conservation biologist with the Audubon Society, says that could be the highest number of nesting pairs in the state in the last 20 years.

Eleven of those pairs produced eggs. Eight of those nests produced a dozen offspring that have survived the season so far.

Last year a dozen nesting pairs produced 21 surviving young.

Martin said bald eagles disappeared from New Hampshire in the 1960s and 70s and didn't reappear until the late 1980s.

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