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State Tipoffs Involving Mississippi Newsletter for Wednesday May 22, 2024 ( 1 items )  

Mississippi State: Bird's-Eye View - Banding Bald Eagles on the Coast for Conservation Research
STARKVILLE, Mississippi, May 22 (TNSres) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: On a clear spring morning along the Mississippi coast, Scott Rush, a scientist in Mississippi State University's Forest and Wildlife Research Center, ascends over an open savannah in a specialized utility bucket truck designed to climb nearly 10 stories high. When he nears the top of the towering pine tree, where a sizable eagle's nest rests securely in a forked branch, Rush extends a dip net and  more