WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Aquila chrysaetos | Golden Eagle 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
In North America the golden eagle breeds from northern and western
Alaska east to Labrador and south to southern Alaska, Baja California,
western and central Texas, western Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the
highlands of northern Mexico (south to Durango, Guanauato, and Nuevo
Leon) [1,8].  A remnant eastern population of golden eagles extends from
Quebec into the Appalachian Mountains [9].  The golden eagle has never
been common in the eastern United States.  Fewer than 30 historical
breeding territories are documented in the Northeast, primarily in New
York, New Hampshire, and Maine [26].

The golden eagle winters from south-central Alaska and the southern
portions of the Canadian provinces south throughout the breeding range
to Mexico, rarely to coastal South Carolina [8,9].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
FRES44 Alpine

STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA


    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD


    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ


    
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC


    
SD
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   occurs in most Kuchler Plant Associations


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   occurs in most SAF cover types


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The golden eagle occupies a variety of plant communities including
tundra, alpine meadows, coniferous forests, shortgrass prairies and
other grasslands, sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) plateaus, sagebrush steppe
with scattered ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and cottonwoods (Populus
spp.), shrublands, oak (Quercus spp.) woodlands, pinyon-juniper (Pinus
spp.-Juniperus spp.) woodlands, and semidesert canyons [6,7,21,27,28].
In California the golden eagle favors grasslands, shrublands with tree
saplings, and open-canopy blue oak (Quercus douglasii) woodlands.  In
late summer the golden eagle is often seen above timberline in
California [27].  Major vegetation types occupied by the golden eagle
during the nesting season in the Snake River Birds of Prey Area, Idaho,
from 1977 through 1979 include big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata),
grassland (Poa and Bromus spp.), and shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) [6].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Aquila chrysaetos | Golden Eagle