Scientific publications

All territories and nest-sites of the Golden Eagle have been controlled in Finland since the 1990s. There are comparable data from part of them also since the mid-1900s. In total, 416 territories are known, and 370 of them have been occupied by Golden Eagles during the last five years. Four fifths of the pairs breed in Lapland. The number of pairs has increased slightly thanks mostly to lessened persecution. The average number of "old" (over 50 days) young per occupied territory was 0.57 in 1980–2005, and the number per successful nest 1.20, respectively