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What we have been doing “Stoops” – species action plans
Four completed and in peer review
Metadata database development
Ongoing and expanding!
Expanding ARG membership
Reaching out to everyone researching, studying
and managing Alaska raptors
Steering committee: chair: Carol McIntyre
Secretary: Chris Barger. At large: Travis Booms, M.
Burns, Steve Lewis, John Shook, Denny Zwiefelhofer
Raptor Stoop
A species action plan:
To highlight issues of concern
To present conservation
actions
Goal is to have one for each
raptor within Alaska.
As each is finalized, present
on website; update as
necessary.
Use as a vehicle for updating
the Management Plan for
Alaska Raptors
Call for comments from YOU
coming soon!
Other news!
The Alaska Raptor Group will begin
distributing email newsletters to update
members on news, events and
publications. Look for first ARG
newsletter in January 2018.
Selected Raptor Projects
Denali GOEA, 11 GPS tags on nestlings-migration/risks, pre-breeding population. NPS/USFWS
AK GOEA nest abund/distr. USFWS/ABR/NPS/ADFG.
Nesting Riverine Raptors NPR–A. BLM/ABR
Nesting raptors, Upper Kobuk. WHPacific/ABR
Nesting BAEA, Haines. DOT&PF/ABR
Selected Raptor Projects cont. Seward Pen. Raptor Surveys (500 cliffs). ADFG
Survey of tagged GOEA in western Alaska Range to determine breeding status. ADFG
Monitor previously tagged eagles (~20). ADFG
Seward Pen. GOEA diet, led by UAF undergrad (Jessica Herzog) and PhD student (Joe Eisaguirre). ADFG
Gyrfalcon breeding biology; 2 grad. students doing MS’s on Seward Pen. Peregrine Fund/ADFG
RLHA migration–assisted w/ deploying transmitters Seward Pen. Jeff Kidd/ADFG
Competitive State Wildlife Grant, successful application for a coordinated 3-y study of SEOW across 8 lower-48 states. ADFG
Other news: Falcon specialist
group
The Arctic Falcon
Specialist Group was
recently formed in
response to a request
from the Conservation of
Arctic Flora and Fauna
(CAFF), the biodiversity
group of the Arctic
Council.
Arctic Falcon Specialist Group Gyrfalcon and Peregrine Falcon were
identified as one of the Focal Ecosystem Components for CAFF, and the group is working together to compile information from studies across the circumpolar regions
Chairs: Alastair Franke (U. of Alberta) & Knud Falk (Copenhagen)
AK members: Peter Bente (retired), Travis Booms (ADFG), Carol McIntyre (NPS) and Ted Swem (FWS), Yukon member: Dave Mossop
Highlights from Raptor Research
Foundation meetings: a sampler Summer ranges, site fidelity, dispersal and migration of
adult and juvenile Rough-legged Hawks from the Seward Pen.: Jeff Kidd, Travis Booms, Chris Barger, Joe Eisaguirre, and Neil Paprocki.
Range and route fidelity of Rough-legged Hawks in North America: Jeff Kidd, Jeff Smith, Travis Booms, Alastair Franke, and Scott Thomas.
The Rough-legged Hawk in North America, a brief summary of ecology and potential future management concerns: Ted Swem.
Dietary plasticity in a specialist predator, the Gyrfalcon: implications for species survival under climate change: Bryce Robinson, Travis Booms, and David Anderson.
Raptor Research Foundation cont. Mechanistic movement model reveals multi-scale
behavioral patterns in a soaring bird during migration: Joe Eisaguirre, Marie Auger-Méthé, Chris Barger, Steve Lewis, Carol McIntyre, Travis Booms and Greg Breed.
Golden eagle migratory behavior in response to Arctic warming. Scott LaPointe, Gil Boher, Sarah Davidson, Elizier Guraire, Peter Mahoney and Natalie Boelman (ABoVE project).
One size does not fit all: what movements of pre-breeding individuals tells us about conserving Golden Eagles in Alaska: Carol McIntyre and Steve Lewis.
Trophic niche partitioning between male and female Golden Eagles in western Alaska: Jessica Herzog, Joe Eisaguirre, Brian Linkhart, and Travis Booms.
Entire program available at: http://www.raptorresearchfoundation.org/files/2017/10/conference_program_2017.pdf
AK Raptor Pubs 2017 Brown, J.L., B. Bedrosian, D.A. Bell, M.A. Braham, J. Cooper, R.H. Crandall, J. DiDonato, R. Domenech, A.E Duerr, T. E.
Katzner, M. J. Lanzone, D.W. LaPlante, C.L. McIntyre, T.A. Miller, R.K. Murphy, A. Shreading, S.J. Slater, J.P. Smith, B.W.
Smith, J.W. Watson and B.Woodbridge. 2017. Patterns of spatial distribution of golden eagles across North America: how do
they fit into existing landscape-scale mapping patterns? Journal of Raptor Research 51: 197-215.
Johnson, J.A., T.L. Booms, L.H. DeCicco, and D.C. Douglas. 2017. Seasonal movements of the short-eared owl (Asio
flammeus) in western North America as revealed by satellite telemetry. Journal of Raptor Research 51:115-128.
Paprocki, N. 2017. Spring 2017 Raptor Migration Report, Gunsight Mountain HawkWatch-Alaska. Unpublished report.
HawkWatch International, Inc. 2240 E. 900 S., Salt Lake City, UT, 84106
Robinson, B.W., N. Paprocki, D.L. Andersen, and M.J. Bechard. 2017. First record of nestling relocation by adult Gyrfalcons
(Falco rusticolus) following nest collapse. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129: 216-221.
Sonsthagen, S.A., J.C. Williams, G.S. Drew, C.M. White, G.K. Sage, and S.L. Talbot. 2017. Legacy or colonization?
Posteruption establishment of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) on a volcanically active subarctic island. Ecology and
Evolution 7: 107-114.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.2631/full
Van Den Bussche, R.A., M.E. Judkins, M.J. Montague, and W.C. Warren. 2017. A resource of genome-wide single nucleotide
polymorphisms (Snps) for the conservation and management of golden eagles. Journal of Raptor Research 51: 368-377.
Wheat, R.E., S.B. Lewis, Y. Wang, T. Levi, and C.C. Wilmers. 2017. To migrate, stay put, or wander. Varied movement
strategies in bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Movement Ecology 5:9;
https://movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40462-017-0102-4.
Wilson, T.L., L.M. Phillips, and B.A. Mangipane. 2017. Improving bald eagle nest monitoring with a second spring survey.
Journal of Wildlife Management 81: 545-551.
2017 Information received
RLHA.
MAKE.
GOEA.
MULTIPLE
GYRF
BAEA
GOEA = 4
AMKE = 2
MULTIPLE = 2
GYRF = 2
RLHA = 1
BAEA = 1
2017 Hawk Watch Weekend, hosted by Anchorage
Audubon and Mat-Su Birders, was a huge success
with 230 visitors!
Report is available here:
https://hawkwatch.org/images/stories/Conservation_S
cience/Publications_and_Reports/Technical_Reports
_-_Current_Projects/2017_Gunsight_Mountain.pdf
Highlights from Gunsight Mountain
Hawkwatch, Spring 2017
Count conducted by 2 observers from 7 March to 15 May (67 or 70 days, 516 hours).
Detected 2,468 migrating raptors of 13 species.
The 2017 flight:54% Buteos 29% Eagles, 8% Accipiters, 7% Harriers, 0.02% Falcons, 0.01% Ospreys, and 0.0% unidentified raptors.
The Red-tailed Hawk was the most commonly observed species (45% of the total), Golden Eagle (29%), Rough-legged Hawk (9%), Northern
Harrier (7%), and Sharp-shinned Hawk (5%).
Numbers detected were
lower than numbers in spring
2016 when 3,087 migrating
raptors were detected.
Highlights from Gunsight Mountain
Hawkwatch, Spring 2017
369 people visited the Gunsight
Hawkwatch in 2017.
Visitors also contributed as official
volunteers and their volunteer effort was
valued at close to $60,000!
Most visitors were Alaskans.
Counters did some on-site interpretation
and Neil did two formal presentations.
Exploratory counts: Kluane!
Neil Paprocki and
Rob Spaul
conducted counts.
Over 1,200
migrating golden
eagles detected in
2 wk