Golden Eagle Monitoring in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
McIntyre C. Golden Eagle Monitoring in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 2001. National Park Service
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, (Denali) contains one of the highest nesting density of Golden Eagles in North America (Kochert et al. 2002). Over 80 territorial pairs of Golden Eagles live in the northern foothills of the Alaska Range in Denali and the National Audubon Society designated this area as an Important Bird Area because of the high density and substantial number of nesting Golden Eagles. Monitoring the nesting territory occupancy and reproductive success of Golden Eagles is a priority of Denali’s Resource Stewardship Strategy (RSS). Golden Eagles are a Vital Sign of the Central Alaska Monitoring Network (CAKN) because they are a high trophic level predator and one of the most common aerial predators in Denali. The long-term ecological studies of Golden Eagles in Denali have provided new and essential information for the management and conservation of this species, particularly for migratory populations. Results of many aspects of Denali’s Golden Eagle studies appear in major peer-reviewed ornithological journals and the value of this long-term study extends far beyond Denali’s borders. The Denali Golden Eagle study, started in 1987, is the longest-running ecological study of a migratory population of Golden Eagles in the world, is the only contemporary study of this species in northwestern North America, and is the only study providing any current information regarding the ecology of this species at high latitudes in western North America.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- McIntyre, Carol
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CAKN , DENA
- Keywords
- Alaska, Denali, Density, Golden Eagle, Long-term, Monitoring, National Park, Nesting, occupancy, Predator, Reproductive Success, Territory
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds
Program
Products
- Protocol for Assessing Nesting Territory Occupancy and Reproductive Success of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in the Central Alaska Monitoring Network: Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
- Applications of threshold concepts to ecological management problems: occupancy of golden eagles in Denali National Park, Alaska.
- Efficient use of information in adaptive management with an application to managing recreation near Golden Eagle nesting sites
- Observations of Migrating Golden Eagles (Aquila Chrysaetos) in Eastern Interior Alaska Offer Insights On Population Size and Migration Monitoring
- Bottom-up processes drive reproductive success in an apex predator
- Genetic structure and viability selection in the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), a vagile raptor with a Holarctic distribution.
- Circumpolar status of Arctic ptarmigan: population dynamics and trends
- Coming to terms about describing golden eagle reproduction
- Long-Term Golden Eagle Studies in Denali National Park and Preserve
- Movements of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) from interior Alaska during their first year of independence
- Postfledging dependence period of migratory golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
- Status and trends of circumpolar peregrine falcon and gyrfalcon populations
- An Adaptive-Management Framework for Optimal Control of Hiking Near Golden Eagle Nests in Denali National Park
- Characteristics of the landscape surrounding golden eagle nest sites in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
- Ecological and environmental correlates of territory occupancy and breeding performance of migratory Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos in interior Alaska
- Patterns in Nesting Area Occupancy and Reproductive Success of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska 1988-99
- Perturbation Analysis for Patch Occupancy Dynamics
- What Came First, The Nest or The Egg? An Unusual Golden Eagle Nest Observed in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
- Survival Probability and Mortality of Migratory Juvenile Gold Eagles from Interior Alaska
- Weather-driven change in primary productivity explains variation in the amplitude of two herbivore population cycles in a boreal system
- Dynamic multistate site occupancy models to evaluate hypotheses relevant to conservation of Golden Eagles in Denali National Park, Alaska
- A multi-state, time-removal model for population dynamics of cliff-nesting raptors
- Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
- Statewide Movements of Non-territorial Golden Eagles in Alaska During the Breeding Season: Information for Developing Effective Conservation Plans
- Synchrony in the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) cycle in northwestern North America, 1970–2012