USFWS Revises Regulations for Incidental Take of Bald and Golden Eagles

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Clint has eleven years of experience conducting environmental science studies and surveying for avian species and other wildlife in the western and southern United States.

Allen Graber is a wildlife ecologist, field coordinator, project manager, and scientist in SWCA’s Scientific Leadership Program. He has conducted numerous wildlife studies, sensitive wildlife and plant species surveys, and habitat assessments in the southern and western U.S. He serves as a subject expert for bald and golden eagle and southwestern willow flycatcher ecology and survey methodologies, and avian species regulatory compliance for energy generation and transmission projects.

Graber has acted as lead surveyor for bald and golden eagle (and other raptor species) nest inventory, occupancy, and productivity surveys in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas covering >3.9 million acres and >200 eagle nests. Other projects—typically involving assessing project risk and project-siting recommendations for avian species—have included raptor migration counts; pre- and post-construction avian use counts; post-construction mortality, carcass searcher efficiency, and carcass persistence surveys; species-specific playback surveys and nest monitoring; “take” documentation; and capture, banding, and telemetry tag placement. Mr. Graber provides study design support; hires, trains, and supervises field crews; coordinates with agencies and project proponents; manages databases and budgets; interprets and analyzes data; writes and edits proposals, technical reports, sections of environmental assessments, and scientific manuscripts;  and is involved in development of avian and bat protection strategies and eagle conservation strategies.

Tom Koronkiewicz is an avian ecologist and riparian habitat specialist with a background in conducting ecological investigations on the distribution and abundance of living organisms and their habitats, he has developed and managed numerous avian ecology, threatened and endangered species, demography, presence/absence, food base, brood parasitism, habitat/hydrology, long-term monitoring of marked populations, and migration studies. Mr. Koronkiewicz specializes in threatened, endangered, and protected avian studies, including Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, Yuma Clapper Rail, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Mexican Spotted Owl, and Golden and Bald Eagle. He is a principal ecologist for development and publishing of avian survey, capture, and color banding techniques, including those targeting the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher.  He has played a key role in agency consultation and development of Bird and Bat Conservation Strategies/Eagle Conservation Plans for wind and solar facilities across the western U.S.