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• 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 within <br />the DeBeque Canyon. An active Peregrine Falcon aerie was discovered in July, <br />1977. (Enderson, 1977) This nesting location has continued to be monitored <br />and has frequently been spotted annually, inclucluding the year of this revision, <br />1996. The actual location varies annually within a '/~ mile range along an east <br />facing cliff near the north end of Mount Lincoln. The general location of these <br />sitings is shown on Exhibit 25. As can be seen on the map, part of the siting <br />area is within our permit boundary. Bald Eagles are commonly seen along the <br />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 of <br />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 presented <br />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, green sunfish, brown trout, rainbow trout and bullhead catfish. <br />Nongame fish expected to inhabit this stretch of the river include western white <br />sucker,mottled sculpin, fathead minnow, roundtail chub, red shiner, carp, flannel- <br />mouth sucker, bluehead sucker, and speckled dace. <br />• 11-3 (Rev. 7/16/97) <br />