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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
A Golden Eagle soaring over the lonely ranchlands of Saskatchewan's southwest, plummeting earthward in pursuit of prey, is a rare sight, and one not easily forgotten. With a northern circumpolar distribution extending across North America, Europe, and Asia (Kochert et al. 2002), the Golden Eagle is the most common large eagle in the world (Brown and Amadon 1968). In North America breeds across the north from Alaska to Labrador and throughout the west into Mexico. Winters from southern Canada south through most of the US and into Mexico.
Foraging Golden Eagles range over all types of open country but are scarce in heavily cultivated areas. Whitfield et al. (1969) speculated that the Golden Eagle's northern habitat generally contains open or burned areas. In southern Saskatchewan, they breed on cliffs in river valleys and badlands, and occasionally in trees; in the north, they use rocky ledges (ibid.).
"The Golden Eagle is an uncommon and local breeding bird in two widely separated areas of the province: the broken forests of the Precambrian Shield around Lake Athabasca, the Foster Lakes and Lower Churchill River (Whitfield et al. 1969) and the Grasslands, mainly along the Montana border or the South Saskatchewan River. With the approach of winter the migratory northern birds withdraw and pass through the southern Boreal region as uncommon transients? (Smith 1996). Wintering occurs mainly in the southern portion of the province.
Original text by David G. Miller. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Golden Eagle in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Golden Eagle in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=GOEA&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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