Demographic patterns in winter carcass use by Golden Eagle and White-tailed Eagle in Finnmark, Norway

• Main Author: Pálsdóttir, Elínborg Sædís
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2012
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Ecology: 488; White-tailed Eagle; Golden Eagle; scavenging; carcass; BIO-3910; Norway; Nordkinn; Sværholt; Finnmark; Haliaeetus albicilla; Varanger; White-tailed eagle; Aquila chrysaetos; golden eagle
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4105

The carcass use of juveniles, subadults and adults of the two eagle species in Norway, the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) was studied in Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway for two winters, in 2009 and 2010. Artificial carrion was laid out...