{"id":4254,"date":"2015-08-15T11:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2015-08-17T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:37:12","slug":"eastern-golden-eagle-populations-and-environmental-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/eastern-golden-eagle-populations-and-environmental-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Golden Eagle populations and environmental change<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4255\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GOEAwTransmitter1_Fusco_Paul-J.-Fusco_SMALL_c-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4255\" class=\"wp-image-4255\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GOEAwTransmitter1_Fusco_Paul-J.-Fusco_SMALL_c-1-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"The Western and Eastern Golden Eagles of North America are geographically distinct. The Eastern population is smaller and breed in Eastern Canada and winter in the U.S.A. west of the Mississippi. (Image credit: Paul J. Fusco)\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GOEAwTransmitter1_Fusco_Paul-J.-Fusco_SMALL_c-1-1024x597.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GOEAwTransmitter1_Fusco_Paul-J.-Fusco_SMALL_c-1-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GOEAwTransmitter1_Fusco_Paul-J.-Fusco_SMALL_c-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Western and Eastern Golden Eagles of North America are geographically distinct. The Eastern population is smaller and breed in Eastern Canada and winter in the U.S.A. west of the Mississippi. (Image credit: Paul J. Fusco)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using GPS trackers and studying feather samples from 42 Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) researchers found that they exhibit migratory connectivity, as individuals from the same breeding population migrate to the same wintering area. This means that subpopulations of the Golden Eagle are more vulnerable to environmental changes than currently expected. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors found that individual birds that wintered furthest north migrated the farthest south, \u201cleapfrogging\u201d over other Golden Eagle populations. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally the researchers\u00a0found that the Golden Eagle subpopulation that summers in southern Canada, spend the winter in the northeastern Appalachian Mountains where large wind-power facilities are being built, placing this Canadian subpopulation at greater risk<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/doi\/10.1136\/bmj.h3978\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>The Condor: Ornithological Applications\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 12<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>David Nelson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todd Katzner, West Virginia University, &amp; \u00a0Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Timber and Watershed Laboratory, West Virginia, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lema\u00eetre,\u00a0Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Parks, Quebec<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using GPS trackers and studying feather samples from 42 Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) researchers found that they exhibit migratory connectivity, as individuals from the same breeding population migrate to the same wintering area. This means that subpopulations of the Golden Eagle are more vulnerable to environmental changes than currently expected. The authors found that individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,114,1445],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-birds","tag-conservation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/GOEAwTransmitter1_Fusco_Paul-J.-Fusco_SMALL_c-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}