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Hmoffsuite: How do they count eagles?

hmoffsuite on December 24 at 1:04 p.m.

Maybe powderfarmer (or anyone else) can answer a question for me. When the F&G, or whomever, is out on a counting expedition, how do they actually go about that? Do they count each and every one they encounter and add to a total? Or, use some averaging method? How do they know that each bird they have counted is a unique eagle, and they are not counting the same ones over and over again?

I resisted the urge to say they count them like this 1, 2, 3... But hmo has a good question. Anyone know the answer?



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