Posted on 07/08/2023 5:41:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The bulk of their food is fish and roadkill.
They do eat snow geese occasionally, if they can catch them. In the Midwest they dive at snow geese flocks, causing the geese to fly up in one great mass, bumping into and injuring each other. The injured ones fall back to the ground or fall behind the flock of other geese, making them easy pickings for the Eagles.
But, eagles are not intentionally cruel, as humans sometimes are. They are hunting for food to hold back hunger, or to feed their rapidly growing chicks, not looking to entertain themselves or to make themselves feel powerful, as a criminal would. When an eagle takes prey it dispatches it as quickly as it is able, it doesn’t exactly have a veterinary kit to knock its victims out before consuming.
The prey is unlikely to feel very much, usually the adrenaline released in trauma and shock pretty much dulls it. Saying that as someone who has been run over by farm machinery, bit by animals on occasion, and once, assaulted by a nutcase intent on blinding me (which was the worst)— you don’t really feel that much after the initial hit/bite because your adrenaline and heart and other systems go crazy.
I noticed that also.
Windmills kill lots of them. These birds are all over the Colombia Gorge. Yes, I am upset someone would purposely kill one of these majestic birds. But it is a bird. And our green overlords kill thousands.
Well, the person accused of killing the Bald Eagle can have their day in court and use the defense of it was their right to kill a Bald Eagle, or whatever defense they will use.
So because wind turbines kill Bald Eagles, then NO
killing of Bald Eagles should be prosecuted?
I truly do not follow that logic.
Daily Mail from the seat of proper English is loaded with this kind of language butchery.
They killed a swan.
Should make a good defense for the accused.
As far as I can tell, it’s woke vernacular with a hedge just in case this particular they/them is a them.
It’s funny and tragic at the same time. Language tends to mirror the intellectual process. This sort of faddish anti-grammar reflects sorely lacking rational thinking skills. Were I the author of this piece, I would be ashamed.
Excellent idea. I could get behind that!
I agree with Franklin. The turkey should have been the national bird, since it can easily feed a family of 4 for a week!
Shame.
“Federal Authorities Hesitant to Charge Honduran Nationals Suspected of Killing a Bald Eagle” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/03/federal-authorities-hesitant-charge-honduran-nationals-suspected-killing-bald-eagle/
Fowl Play: Foreign Nationals Kill and Eat Beloved Town Swan - Free Beacon
Its “woke” language. The same woke that calls strait people “cis”.
I don’t care for sloppy english, either.
Well, yes.
Because if inefficient costly windmills are permitted to kill hundreds of eagles and thousands upon thousands of other birds then obviously the government isn’t truly concerned about the birds.
Oh those beautiful hawks...who swoop down on domestic fowl,small pets, young sheep......; and bears and wolves and coyotes and tigers never attack people😡.
Predators prey. Of course I understand some people admire predators.
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