Bald Eagle Nest Dynamics
Southwest Alaska Network. 2018. Bald Eagle Nest Dynamics. Southwest Alaska Network
Bald eagles, though abundant in Southwest Alaska, can still be subjected to various stressors, such as environmental contaminants and human disturbance. Stressors can potentially cause changes in behavior, spatial use patterns, and population status in Bald Eagles. Population trends and changes in species persistence can often be difficult to evaluate since many factors, such as contaminants, disturbance, and density dependence, interact to create trends that are stable, cyclical, or random. Thus, long-term monitoring is an important component of management plans for parks in the Southwest Alaska Inventory & Monitoring Network. Katmai National Park & Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Lake Clark National Park & Preserve all aim to have effective long-term monitoring programs that can help them to better understand these complex population trends that may occur within the parks.
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Date of Issue
- 2018-03
- Publisher
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Units
- LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- bald eagle, nest, nesting
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds