Seasonal variation in resource selection by subadult golden eagles in the Great Basin Desert

Golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) are a long-lived and wide-ranging species believed to be stable or in slight decline across North America. Golden eagles have an extended subadult stage (4–5 years) that is critical to maintaining recruitment into the breeding population and population viability. We investigated patterns of resource selection for subadults in the Great Basin Desert of the western United States during summer and winter, 2013–2019. We monitored 46 subadults with GPS transmitters and related locations (n = 99,037) with predictors hypothesized to influence seasonal patterns of space use with mixed-effects logistic regression.Â