Last year’s nesting season was another successful one for the state’s bald eagles. According to the 2024 New Jersey Bald Eagle Project Report, released by the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection and Conserve Wildlife Foundation, 293 nest sites were monitored, with a record 264 documented as active – meaning with eggs – and 29 noted to have territorial or “housekeeping” pairs.

In total, said CWF senior wildlife biologist Larissa Smith, “there were 288 fledglings, resulting in a productivity…