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Eagle Takes Fox

Brian Jones

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Pic courtesy of BF member 555.
 
Actually, it turns out that they were competing for the carcass. Here's the series (courtesy of BF member Nathan the Machinist):

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Amazing. I'd like to see footage like the video of the eagle carrying the sheeps (or was it goats?).

If the local pigeons attacked me like that for food I'd be scared, let alone an eagle with a wing span of like what, 5-6 feet?
 
wow...that is an incredible chance at taking some photos...or i wonder if the photographer sat in some bushes for hours waiting for all the animals to come and fight over it...

either way these are incredible photos...everything is just right besides the subject matter too.
 
Look at the Fox's face in the first photo. Is that a cartoon "Oh SH**!" expression or what? :D
 
Also courtesy of Nathan:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle:

"Golden Eagles can be trained for falconry.[5] In Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, western Mongolia and China, Golden Eagles are still used to hunt foxes and wolves by Kazakh and Kyrgyz nomads; the bird is locally known as burkut or berkut.[6] Foxes are killed outright by the eagles, but due to their size and strength wolves are usually held down while the falconer himself finishes the kill."
 
We need more of that kind of competition in our society. Maybe I would get less knuckleheads in my classes. ;)

Pictures are amazing.

If I was that Fox - I would be GONE!

TF
 
VANCE said:
looks like the magpie wants NOTHING to do w/ what's going on!
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Actually, I would venture a guess that the magpies were ganging up on the fox and trying to dart in for morsels, and that the one in the pic you quoted took advantage of the fight and was snapped as it darted back out with a piece of food.
 
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