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Data Series 753

Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Golden Eagle Records from the Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey—Information for Wind Energy Management and Planning

By Wade Eakle, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Patti Haggerty, Mark Fuller, and Sue Phillips, U.S. Geological Survey

Table 1. State summary statistics for golden eagle records from the Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey.

STATE # of
Years
First
Year
Last
Year
Total
GOEA
Observed
Mean
GOEA
Minimum
GOEA
Maximum
GOEA
Mode
GOEA
AL 25 1986 2010 1 0 0 1 0
AR 23 1986 2010 52 2.3 0 11 0
AZ 19 1992 2010 291 15.3 0 27 18
CA 25 1986 2010 892 35.7 1 117 29
CO 25 1986 2010 993 39.7 0 71 29
CT 25 1986 2010 9 0.4 0 2 0
GA 19 1991 2010 1 0.1 0 1 0
IA 20 1991 2010 8 0.4 0 3 0
ID 30 1980 2010 2318 77.3 0 141 0
IL 25 1986 2010 16 0.6 0 4 0
IN 29 1982 2010 46 1.6 0 5 1
KS 25 1986 2010 13 0.5 0 3 0
KY 25 1986 2010 59 2.4 0 7 0
MA 25 1986 2010 10 0.4 0 2 0
MD 25 1986 2010 27 1.1 0 2 1
MI 13 1986 1998 6 0.5 0 2 0
MN 24 1986 2010 3 0.1 0 1 0
MS 20 1986 2010 3 0.2 0 1 0
MT 25 1986 2010 913 36.5 0 89 0
NC 19 1987 2009 1 0.1 0 1 0
ND 24 1986 2010 20 0.8 0 4 0
NE 25 1986 2010 26 1 0 12 0
NJ 23 1988 2010 87 3.8 0 11 3
NM 8 1990 2006 6 0.8 0 6 0
NV 17 1989 2010 147 8.6 0 17 8
NY 25 1986 2010 6 0.2 0 2 0
OK 24 1986 2010 99 4.1 0 10 0
OR 23 1988 2010 1849 80.4 36 114 87
SC 18 1993 2010 23 1.3 0 4 1
SD 25 1986 2010 186 7.4 0 32 1
TN 25 1986 2010 12 0.5 0 4 0
TX 25 1986 2010 88 3.5 0 13 0
UT 25 1986 2010 1032 41.3 2 81 31
VA 8 1997 2004 1 0.1 0 1 0
WA 14 1997 2010 21 1.5 0 14 0
WI 10 1994 2010 3 0.3 0 1 0
WV 16 1995 2010 1 0.1 0 1 0
WY 22 1989 2010 2387 108.5 32 368 89

Suggested citation:

Eakle, Wade, Haggerty, Patti, Fuller, Mark, and Phillips, Sue, 2013, Golden eagle records from the Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey—Information for wind energy management and planning: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 753.