Raptor Population Monitoring

EEI has a history of long-term breeding raptor monitoring projects; including a) a 10-year (1996-2005) study of breeding Golden Eagle on the 17 million acre Navajo Nation, b) an ongoing 7-year study of breeding Golden Eagle on the 1 million acre Jicarilla Nation, c) a 5-year study (2003-2007) of Golden Eagles in a 200 thousand acre circle around the ALP dam site in SW Colorado, d) an ongoing 3 year study of breeding Golden Eagles in northeastern New Mexico’s for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, and e) 17 years of monitoring of Osprey and Peregrine Falcons in northern New Mexico.  Aerial surveys are a key part of studies a-d, with helicopters used exclusively on the ALP project.  The project manager/biologist has more than 700 hrs of fixed wing and 25 hrs of rotor wing raptor nest survey experience.   If you contract with EEI for long-term raptor monitoring, we can guarantee you that you will have the same quality biologist in the field year after year.

Vertebrate Inventory

EEI conducts systematic counts and trapping efforts to identify and quantify birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians present within defined areas.  Generally birds are counted from fixed points, nests are documented,  and mammals, reptiles, and amphibians are captured using trapping arrays.  Areas that have been  inventoried include the Cimaron Mine, San Juan County (1984),  Rio Grande Wild and Scenic Area, Taos County (1985), Ortiz Mountains, Santa Fe County (1990), Uracca Wildlife  Management Area , Taos County (1995), Rio Chama Wildlife Management Area, Rio Arriba County (1997), Rio Grande Bosque within Albuerque, Bernalillo County (1997-8), Prairie Chicken Wildlife Management Areas, Roosevelt and Lea Counties (1998), and El Segundo Mine, McKinley County (2001).  Clients have included the Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, and Metric Corporation (mines).