Home Range and Habitat Use of the New Zealand Falcon (Falco novaeseelandiae) within a Plantation Forest: A Satellite Tracking Study

Table 2

Falcon use of compartments by age category.

		<4 years		4–9 years		10–19 years		>20 years
	Year	Area (km^2) (%)^1	Use (%)^2	Area (km^2) (%)	Use (%)	Area (km^2) (%)	Use (%)	Area (km^2) (%)	Use (%)
Juv female	2005	59	78	8	2	0	0	32	20
Juv male 1	2006	11	5	15	23	29	54	45	18
Juv male 2	2007	15	26	0	0	50	33	35	41
Adult female	2002	13	16	11	3	48	42	29	39
	2003	16	18	8	3	44	38	32	41
	2004	13	17	7	5	40	35	40	44
Adult male	2006	7	26	29	22	29	26	36	26
	2007	3	1	32	45	32	28	32	24
	2008	3	1	21	26	41	46	34	27

¹The compartments within each falcons’ 95% kernel home range were selected and the percentage of available area within each age group was calculated.
²The number of Argos locations within each compartment age was calculated as the percentage of use.