Quantified Estimates of Predation by a Golden Eagle Population
- 1 July 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 31 (3) , 496-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3798130
Abstract
In south-central Montana, 702 prey items were recorded during a 3-year survey of 17-19 nesting pairs of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) on a 1260-square-mile area. One pair of eagles brought an estimated 490 g of edible food mass per eagle per day to one nest during a 39-day period. An estimated 40 [long dash] 49 prey individuals were taken per eagle over a 100-day period for an average of 19 [long dash] 27 prey individuals taken per 10 square miles per 100 days by the total eagle population. The most important species were white-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus townsendii) and cottontails (Sylvilagus audubonii and S. nuttallii).This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: