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... <br />The cliff faces and high canyon walls provide nesting habitat for Golden <br />Eagles,Prairie Falcons, and Redtailed Hawks. Two threatened and endangered <br />species, the Peregrine Falcon and the Bald Eagle, have been documented <br />within the DeBeque Canyon. An active Peregrine Falcon aerie was discovered <br />in July, 1977. (Enderson, 1977) This nesting location has continued to be <br />monitored and has frequently been spotted annually, inclucluding the year of <br />this revision, 1996. The actual locaton varies annually within a Yz mile range <br />along an east facing cliff near the north end of Mount Lincoln. The general <br />location of these sitings is shown on Exhibit 25. As can be seen on the map, <br />part of the siting area is within our permit boundary. Bald Eagles are commonly <br />seen along the Colorado River in DeBeque Canyon during the winter months. <br />A list of the bird species expected to commonly occur in the permit are adjacent <br />area is presented in Table 11-2. <br />Reptiles and Amphibians <br />Distribution, abundance, and habitat preference of the reptiles and amphibians <br />of Colorado as compiled in the Latilong studies determined those species most <br />likely to inhabit the permit area and adjacent area. The species list is <br />presented in Table 11-3. <br />Fish <br />The project area is split east and west by the Colorado River. The river here is <br />considered a warm water fishery. Game fish species include channel catfish, <br />largemouth bass, sunfish, and bullhead catfish. Nongame fish expected to <br />inhabit this stretch of the river include roundtail chub, sand shiner, carp, flannel- <br />mouth sucker, bullhead sucker, speckled dace, and redfin shiner. <br />11-3 (Rev. 12116/96) <br />