Nesting Protocol Quiz

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1. Create a monitoring plan for the 2021 breeding season for a new osprey nest that was found in October 2020. When should you start and stop monitoring in 2021, how frequent and how long should your monitoring visits be, and how far away should you be while monitoring? Use the tables below as guides. **NOTE: Your answer will be manually graded, so don't worry if you see 0/2 points for this question in your results.** *

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2. Why do we monitor inactive, potential, and destroyed nests? Check all that apply. *

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Just because they're inactive now doesn't mean they'll be inactive in a few weeks.

A nest is a nest, and this is the nesting protocol.

The presence of a nest at a location historically means that that area was once suitable habitat, and may be still be suitable for other raptors.

Cool predators will come check out old raptor nests, like mountain lions.

Some raptor species will commandeer unused nests built by other species.

Some raptors will reuse the same nest year after year, or maintain several nests that they alternate between.

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3. Which zones at Eldorado Canyon State Park would switch from the non-nesting protocol to the nesting protocol at the beginning of the breeding season? Check all that apply. *

1 point

Zone 1

Zone 2

Zone 3

Zone 4

Zone 5

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4. A fledgling is... *

1 point

A young bird that has yet to learn to fly.

A young bird that has learned to fly and is no longer dependent on the nest site.

Another word for a "yearling," or a bird that is one-year-old.

A ledge-nesting bird.

5. You are watching an active great horned owl nest, and can see one adult incubating eggs on the nest. A prairie falcon flies off to your left, and is definitely in your zone, but flies out of sight. How should you record this? *

2 points

In the comment section of your nesting observation observation data sheet.

As a non-nesting zone observation on a non-nesting observation data sheet.

As an incidental observation on a non-nesting observation data sheet.

In a separate nest monitoring observation data sheet.

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