This state is now home to one of the biggest populations of bald eagles in the US after years of recovery

This state is now home to one of the biggest populations of bald eagles in the US after years of recovery

This state is now home to one of the biggest populations of bald eagles in the US after years of recovery Today, Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay is home to the highest concentration of bald eagles in the contiguous United States (but not the entirety of the U.S. — that honor belongs to Alaska, which hosts nearly half of the world’s 70,000 bald eagles).  According to regional experts, this momentous milestone has been a long time coming.  Back in 1985, bald eagle biologist Glenn Therres began counting nests for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. From the window of a four-seater plane, Therres peered down at the Chesapeake Bay — the largest estuary in the country with a shoreline of 11,684 miles — and took stock of breeding pairs from 200 feet above.  “It took a strong stomach and inner ear because we were flying donuts around the nests,” Therres, now retired, told the Maryland DNR in early July.  “The biologists would rely on their eyesight to see the nests — binoculars in the small mo…