Factors Influencing Nest Site Selection of Bald Eagles in Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Abstract

In the course of 7 years' research on laid Eagles in Northern Saskatchewan ind Manitoba, we gained some im->ressions about eagle nest sites.3 13 In >rder to test these observations, we eanalyzed our Bald Eagle data ollected from 1968 through 1974. )ur information is from extensive erial surveys of Bald Eagles in central iaskatchewan and Manitoba in 196913 nd a survey of central and northern Jaskatchewan in 1974. Also, we have >een studying the eagle population ince 1968 on Besnard Lake which is ocated in central Saskatchewan in the Northern Coniferous forest of the irecambrian shield about 40 miles vest-northwest of Lac La Ronge." 12 1ETHODS. In 1974 our Bald