Bald Eagle Monitoring Report for Fiscal Year 2012

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/3006949· OSTI ID:3006949

Lindsey, Cole ^[1]; Nugent, John ^[1]; Sackschewsky, Mike ^[1]; Wilde, Justin ^[1]

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1. Mission Support Alliance, LLC, Hanford, WA (United States)

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) plays an important predatory role in the ecosystem and serves as a national symbol for the United States of America. In 2007 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) determined that the population of bald eagles in the lower 48 States had sufficiently recovered, so the species could be removed from the federal endangered and threatened species list. The State of Washington also down-listed Bald Eagles from threatened to sensitive. However, Federal laws including the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940 and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 still provide protection for eagles, their nest trees, and communal night roosts. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The National Bald Eagle Management Guidelines (USFWS 2007), provides monitoring and management guidance for Bald Eagles. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Richland Operations Office (RL) has a Hanford Site bald eagle management plan (DOE 2009) that defines appropriate protection measures for nests and roost sites based on federal and state guidelines. Monitoring is essential to maintain current biological information about bald eagle abundance and distribution on the Hanford Site, to ensure compliance with protection regulations, and to inform future protection and management efforts.

• Research Organization: Mission Support Alliance, LLC, Hanford, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-09RL14728
• OSTI ID: 3006949
• Report Number(s): HNF--52464-Rev.0
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English