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Between 2017 and 2023, the Arizona-based research team used satellite transmitters to follow 24 newly fledged Bald Eagles and two nonbreeding adults and to map how they moved within and beyond the state.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

And the models follow each species' full annual life cycle, from breeding to fall migration to nonbreeding grounds, and back north again during spring migration.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

Beyond just longevity, these hairless rodents also exhibit one of the most complex social structures known in mammals: a queen mole rat and castes of nonbreeding workers cooperatively live together in subterranean burrows.

From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2023

Between March 22 and April 15, the peak breeding season, the male giant pandas' testes were nearly three times larger than in the nonbreeding season, between June 1 and September 30.

From Scientific American • Apr. 4, 2012

We suspect that many of the birds present in Texas in June and July, together with those recorded by us in Tamaulipas in July, are nonbreeding, summering individuals.

From Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, M?xico by Johnston, Richard F.