Wings Over Wide Country: teacher key

Golden Eagles, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. A long look at the golden eagle: how it hunts, flies, nests and lives, how scientists track and count it, and what the numbers show.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. How do golden eagles tend to migrate?
   • Only at night over open sea
   • At midday, along north-south cliff lines and ridges (answer)
   • In a single large flock
2. What is the Peregrine Fund doing in the southwestern United States?
   • Building eagle nests
   • Selling eagle feathers
   • Golden eagle monitoring and studies (answer)
3. What did the 1968 to 2010 western trend study conclude?
   • Golden eagles were not declining widely (answer)
   • Golden eagles were gone from the West
   • Golden eagles had tripled
4. How long can a golden eagle go after a good meal before it needs to eat again?
   • Several days (answer)
   • One hour
   • Exactly one year
5. The survey has only four years of data. What does that mean for conclusions about trends?
   • Trends are certain
   • Eagles are not counted
   • Long-term trends are hard to judge (answer)
6. What does cache mean in: rarely cache food?
   • Hunt
   • Store (answer)
   • Fly

Words

• telemetry: remote tracking
• carrion: dead animal
• falconry: hunting with birds
• orographic: hill-lifted
• estuary: river mouth
• cache: hidden store