Information concerning parasites of the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in North America is relatively sparse. Since the bald eagle in parts of the United States is an endangered species, collection of eagles for parasito!ogical study is difficult. There have been several singular reports of parasites found in oron bald eagles in the literature. However, Kocan and Locke (1974, J. Wild!. I...

Introduction Kleptoparasitism by animals pertains to the opportunistic or habitual stealing of food from other animals. The kleptoparasite benefits by eating food that it could not have obtained itself or by saving energy by not having to search for or capture that food (Shealer et al. 2005). Kleptoparasitism is particularly common in waterbirds, including gulls, skuas, jaegers, and fri gatebir...

ISLE is a continuation of the long standing EAGLES initiative and it is supported by EC and NSF under the Human Language Technology (HLT) programme. Its objective is to develop widely agreed and urgently demanded standards and guidelines for infrastructural language resources, tools, and HLT products. EAGLES itself is a well-known trademark and point of reference for HLT projects and products a...

Because sea otters (Enhydra lutris) exert a wide array of direct and indirect effects on coastal marine ecosystems throughout their geographic range, we investigated the potential influence of sea otters on the ecology of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA. We studied the diets, productivity, and density of breeding Bald Eagles on four islands during 199...

Conservation of species threatened with imminent extinction may require drastic measures that can be emotionally charged, politically unsavory, and legally challenging. A complex example relates to the decline of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis), endemic to the California Channel Islands, off the coast of the United States. The island fox exists as six subspecies, each found on a separate is...

In this paper, I describe derivation and practical application of an ontology of word classes manually derived from four different sources: – the EAGLES recommendations for the morphosyntactic annotation of corpora, – several language-specific, or task-specific tag sets for part-of-speech tagging, – the typologically-oriented SFB632 guidelines for part-of-speech tagging, and – the General Ontol...

-Cackling Geese (Brunta canadensis minima) were preyed on heavily in northeastern California by Golden Eagles (Aquila chysaetos) and less commonly by Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus Zeucocephalus) in 19851990. Eagle predation on Cackling Geese was minimal in other wintering locations in California. In the Klamath Basin, eagles killed Cackling Geese most frequently soon (<IO days) after the geese arrive...

Examination of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) collected from several locations in North America contributed new information concerning the acanthocephalan fauna of this host. Representatives of Arythmorhynchus brevis, representing a new host record, were collected from eagles in Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. Plagiorhynchus sp. was collected from an eagle in Florida. Corynosoma ...