[PW] A moping period for eagles?

[Daphne Drewello]

Kevin Woodruff wrote

> I have a professor that is trying to reseach the factuality of a the tale 
> that an adult eagle goes through a time of inactivity called the "moping 
> period." He's found it used in sermons, but needs to confirm the details. 
> does anyone have any sort of idea if this "urban legend" is in fact true?
>

  Could he be referring to the molting period, when the eagle loses its old 
feathers
and gains new ones?

Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND