Montrose bald eagle report 2010 final

Bald eagle Restoration on the California Channel Islands January December 2010 9th Annual report Bald eagle Restoration on the California Channel Islands January December 2010 9th Annual report Prepared by: Peter B. Sharpe Institute for Wildlife Studies Post Office Box 1104 Arcata, California 95518 Prepared for: National Park Service Channel Islands National Park 1901 Spinnaker Drive Ventura, CA 93001 March 2011 Recommended Citation: Sharpe, P. B. 2011. Bald eagle Restoration on the California Channel Islands, January - December 2010, 9th Annual report . Unpublished report prepared by the Institute for Wildlife Studies, Arcata, California for National Park Service, Ventura, California. 30 pp. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) once nested on all the California Channel Islands off the coast of southern California, but disappeared by the early 1960s. Human persecution contributed to the population decline, but the introduction of DDT into the Southern California Bight, starting in the late 1940s, is thought to have led to their ultimate extirpation from Southern California.

programs, the Montrose Settlements Restoration Program combined the two restoration projects into a single program at the end of 2007. In 2010, we monitored all known bald eagle nests on 2. the Channel Islands and searched for additional breeding eagles. In this report we summarize the

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