Ecología
Aerial identification and quantification of nesting sites of Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in the mountain ranges of central Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
Gonzalo De León-Girón a, Diego Toscano a, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos a, *, Catalina Porras-Peña b, Fernando Escoto-Rodríguez b, Víctor Gelasio Sánchez-Sotomayor b, Celerino Montes-García b, Juan Vargas-Velazco c, Ismael Cruz-Molina d, Robert N. Fisher e
Aerial census for identification and quantification of nesting sites of Golden Eagle was performed through the mountain ranges of the central Baja California Peninsula, Mexico from 5 to 8 April 2021. We identified a total of 113 nests and 12 territories of Golden Eagle on a sampling trajectory of 1,203 km that encompassed a surface of 176,000 ha.