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• (Corvus brachvrhv nchos) nest beyond the permit boundary (GH01, Exhibit <br /> 11-1). The owls at GH02 were incubating on 13 June. When the nest <br />was checked on 17 July no adults or young were observed. It is not <br />known if the nest failed or if young fledged before 17 July. Two <br />large owlets were in GHO1 on 16 May. By 29 June, those birds had <br />fledged. <br />The other two nests located in 1993 were inactive golden eagle <br />nests on a sandstone cliff northwest of the proposed permit area in <br />SW/4 SE/4, Section 7. According to CDOW records, those nests were <br />initially found in 1980. That year, USFWS biologists mapped three <br />nests on the SE/4 Section 7 cliff. The nests were listed as active in <br />1980, but the number of young fledged, if any, was not recorded. <br />• BREEDING BIRDS <br />Breeding bird survey locations are shown on Exhibit 11-1. Forty- <br />one species were seen during the surveys (Table 7). Species richness <br />was greatest in bottomland where 28 species were observed, and least <br />in sagebrush where 15 species were recorded. Twenty species were <br />observed in mountain brush and 17 on aspen plots. <br />Of the 41 species recorded, 24 were termed negu.fac (observed on <br />three or more survey periods) in at least one habitat (Table 7). The <br />remaining 17 species were termed occa,ei.ona.C (observed on fewer than <br />three survey periods). The most ubiquitous species were the green- <br />tailed towhee (Pioilo chlorurus), house wren (Troalodvtes aedon), and <br />American robin (Turdus miaratorius). Each of those species were <br />regular in three habitats and occasional in a fourth. Three other <br />• species--northern flickers (Colaotes aerates), violet-green swallows <br />(Tachvcineta thalassina), and broad-tailed hummingbirds (Selasohorus <br />29 <br />