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Platte River Ecology Study


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Table 7. Habitat use by raptors during the 1978-79 and 1979-80 winters in the North Platte and Platte River Valleys.
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Habitat        Red-tailed    Rough-legged    Ferruginous    Bald      Prairie    American    Marsh      All 
type             hawk           hawk            hawk        eagle     falcon     kestrel     hawk     species
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Riparian
woodlands

  Birds
  observed       311             38              7           838        7           40        35        1476 
  %in habitat     53.6           17.1           14.0          75.9      8.4          8.6      14.2        43.7 
  
Shelterbelts-
woodlots

  Birds
  observed       127             45               9          201        6           64         6         530  
  %in habitat     21.9           20.3            18.0         14.8      7.2         13.8       2.4        15.7
  
Grazed
pasture
 
  Birds
  observed        23             40               4            38       9           35        25         196
  %in habitat      4.0           18.0             8.0           2.8    10.8          7.5      10.2         5.8
  
Ungrazed
pasture

  Birds
  observed        14              12              1            20       3            26        33         128 
  %in habitat      2.4             5.4            2.0           1.5     3.6           5.6      13.4         3.8
  
Tilled field

  Birds
  observed        38              31             20           154      31           151        54         515
  %in habitat      6.6            14.0           40.0          11.4    37.3          32.5      22.0        15.2
  

Mowed field

  Birds
  observed        47              40              7            37      21            84        39         285
  %in habitat      8.1            18.0           14.0           2.7    25.3          18.1      15.8         8.4
  
Irrigation
canal

  Birds
  observed        13               8             --            35       4             33        25         132
  %in habitat      2.2             3.6           --             2.6     4.8            7.1      10.2         3.9
  
Other

  Birds
  observed        7                8              2            30       2             31        29         118
  %in habitat     1.2              3.6            4.0           2.2     2.4            6.7      11.8         3.5
  
Total           580              222             50          1353      83            464       246        3380

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