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Breeding Bald Eagles in Arizona are generally believed to stay close to their nesting territories for much of the year, but there has been much less information about what nonbreeding birds do.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

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

A spare nonbreeding adult can help guard pups and hunt for food.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 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

However, the packs studied there could not be identified with certainty, and little information was obtained about nonbreeding population units.

From Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota by Frenzel, L. D.