Originally Posted By: L. Brown


But we still need to deal with that increase of nearly 40%, from 05 to 06, reflected in FWS's count of breeding pairs.


You need to look at the state by state surveys for those years. 2000 was the last year that every state submitted a survey. After that year it was determined they were no longer needed due to the recovery that had taken place with the bald eagle population.

In 2005 and 2006 states opted to conduct their own surveys again. Some of them did in 2005 and some did in 2006. The raw totals between those years can not be compared because states did not report numbers in both years.

With data after 2000 being inconstantly reported, it is more difficult to determine accurate numbers of breeding pairs after that point.

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