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In VENEZUELA, the Harpy Eagle Conservation Program (HECP) has surveyed and
mapped more than 30 nests of the Harpy Eagle in the lowlands south of the
Orinoco River and east of Lake Guri. The largest "cluster" of nests
(n=9) is located east of the town of El Palmar in the Rio Grande area of the
Sierra Imataca. At least 18 other breeding sites have been identified in or
adjacent to the Imataca Forest Reserve, including a site reported on top of
the Nuria escarpment and four others near Bochinche to the southeast (near the
border with Guyana). HECP is also monitoring four other nests situated >100
km southwest of Imataca in the Supamo River drainage.
In PANAMA by 1996, HECP had reliable reports of more than a dozen nests in the Darien Province. HECP also began surveying the Atlantic slope north of Panama City, with three nests reported in Chagres National Park since 1995.
NEST SPACING: (distance between active nests):
HOME RANGE: HECP has tracked a breeding pair of Harpy Eagles with satellite transmitters in Venezuela (February 96-April 97). Fourteen locations obtained for the female were within 10 km from the nest. Minimal data on the male (7 locations) indicated the pair shared the habitat.
In Panama HECP is tracking a breeding male with a solar satellite transmitter since March 2000.
MORE FACTS: If you need more information on Harpy Eagles and you can't find what you need on or from this page, contact:
Dr. Eduardo Alvarez
EM.Org Trustee
PO Box 15251,
Gainesville, FL 32604 USA
Telefax 352.378.5318
harpia@attglobal.net
Take "field notes." Most of you won't be able to go to the rainforest to take field notes, but
for practice you can take notes when you go on a hike or walk, explore the
nearest park, or even in your own back yard.
In your field notes, write down things like:
A. What's the date?
B. Where are you? In the forest? In your backyard? I n a
desert? On an island?
C. What's the weather like? Is it sunny, cloudy, or partly
cloudy? Is it raining or snowing? How hard is the
wind blowing? Hard enough to fly a kite, or just a little bit?
D. Is it warm or cold? What is the temperature?
E. What kinds of plants do you see? Grass? trees? shrubs?
weeds? Is there more ground than plants? How much more?
What's the percentage of plant cover?
F. What animals, birds, reptile, bugs, or spiders do you see? How
many? What are they doing--flying, crawling, being still, trying to
hide?
G. What are you doing when you see an animal, bird, reptile, bug or
spider? Are you sitting and watching? Are you walking
quietly?
H. Draw pictures of what you see. Or, if you have a camera, take
photos. Label the pictures or photos so you don't forget what they
are, where you were, and what you where doing.
Click here for a blank Field Notes page that
you can fill in. You need Adobe® Acrobat Reader™ to print these
pages. You can download Adobe Acrobat
Reader FREE by clicking here.
Here's a sample of Antonio Fernandini's field notes. He's a biologist
in Peru. His notes are in Spanish. Even if you don't read
Spanish you can get a good idea
of what he was looking at in the field. What do you see in the picture
that Antonio has drawn?
When you're finished with the activities above, you're a Harpy Eagle Bio-Ranger!!! Click here to see the official Harpy Eagle Bio-Ranger certificate. You need Adobe® Acrobat Reader™ to print this certificate. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader FREE by clicking here.
Print the certificate, add your name, and have it signed by someone like your teacher, parents, or scout leader to verify that you're a Harpy Eagle Bio-Ranger.
Click here to go to the EM.Org list of publications and references.
Check your library or go to an Internet distributor like Amazon.com
for these books listed below. Most of them are for grade school kids.
Look for a new Harpy Eagle book to be published sometime this year--2002--as part of the Animals of the Rain Forest series, by Compass International. E-mail Christy Steele for more information.
Enchanted Learning's Harpy Eagle page To print out and color a Harpy Eagle picture
If you need more information on Harpy Eagles and you can't find what you need on or from this page, contact:
Dr. Eduardo Alvarez
EM.Org Trustee
PO Box 15251,
Gainesville, FL 32604 USA
Telefax 352.378.5318
harpia@attglobal.net
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