Although Golden Eagles are one of eastern North America’s apex predators, the eastern population of this species has only recently been given the attention typical of such ecologically important taxa. Eastern golden eagles face a variety of human-related threats, including disturbance and habitat loss, energy development, poisoning by environmental contaminants, and climate change. To inform conservation and management of the species by federal, state, and local agencies, the Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group recently developed a comprehensive conservation plan.
In this 30-minute REWI webinar, Dr. Todd Katzner, Research Wildlife Biologist with USGS and Coordinator of the Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group, will provide an overview of the plan, discuss the motivation for developing the plan, and answer audience questions regarding the plan and its applications.
The plan is available on the Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group’s website: https://egewg.org/conservation-plan.
Moderator: Dr. Shilo Felton, Senior Scientist, Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute
Speaker: Dr. Todd Katzner, Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey
- Todd Katzner is a Research Wildlife Biologist at the Snake River Field Station of the U.S. Geological Survey in Boise, Idaho. He has >35 years of experience in ecology and conservation biology, and his recent work focuses on understanding and mitigating anthropogenic threats, such as wind energy, toxicants, and illegal take, for wildlife in North America and globally. Katzner has an international research program focusing on raptors in central Asia; he has >190 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is a co-editor and author of the book “The Eagle Watchers.” He received his B.A. from Oberlin College, his M.S. from the University of Wyoming for research on pygmy rabbits, and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University for work focused on the ecology and conservation of eagles in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Katzner co-founded the wildlife telemetry company Cellular Tracking Technologies, LLC.