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š„This bald eagle catches a fish out of midair.
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u/DiegoGames9872 14d ago
Yoink
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u/Ceceliamartinez5 14d ago
That's incredible. Enough is enough.
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u/MinRers 14d ago
The Eagle never loses eye contact till the mission is complete. Such precision, elegance and beauty.
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u/Sampolis 14d ago
And Americans called them Bald. Why???
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u/Really_Elvis 14d ago
Back in the day, bald was a word for white headed. At least thatās what my history teacher told us in the 60ās.
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u/sadguy92 14d ago
Yoink is reserved for theft. The bird was passed the fish, no yoinking involved
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u/oldDotredditisbetter 14d ago
100% this. can't believe this comment was so high up. redditors need to learn proper use of a word!
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u/ttt247 14d ago
Oh say can you see.....
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u/Lifeintherockies 14d ago
By the dawns early flight
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u/chickiedew 14d ago
What so proudly we quailed
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u/true_gunman 14d ago
You know I was having lunch next to a lake a few years back and I watched an osprey dive down and scoop a fish out of the water becuase they are excellent hunters. Well then I watched as a huge bald eagle started chasing the osprey and attacking it until it dropped the fish. The eagle then swooped down and grabbed the fish and fucking booked it.
After that I realized the bald eagle really is a great bird to represent the United States
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u/striceheron 14d ago
Funny tidbit, bald eagles are terrible fisherman. They have a success rate of like 25% whereas osprey are closer to 80%. Baldies are glorified vultures. Source? Worked at an eagle rehab center. And google.
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u/eristicforfun 14d ago
Osprey are hilarious when hitting the water. They go from a graceful bird to a uncontrolled pallet of bricks dropped from orbit.
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u/DIOmega5 14d ago
Much like the military aircraft that takes the name of Osprey.
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u/Deviate_Lulz 14d ago
As a former Osprey mechanic, can confirm.
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u/Rycan420 14d ago
Why would a bird need a mechanic?
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u/RealistWanderer 14d ago
Also, that iconic 'eagle' sound you hear in media is actually a red-tailed hawk.
Baldies sound much different than what people think.
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u/Phytanic 14d ago
I've nearly hit them several times because they love roadkill, and they're everywhere along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.
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u/VapeThisBro 14d ago
I don't think I realized the Mississippi was so damn long it was in Wisconsin
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u/RawrRRitchie 14d ago
The Mississippi River is basically our Amazon or Nile rivers
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u/JackBauerSaidSo 14d ago
And it used to be bigger!
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u/JacobJamesTrowbridge 14d ago
Really? How much so?
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u/goingbananas44 14d ago
Depending on how far back you want to go, there used to be a whole sea cutting through North America in the devonian period. That's why there are a lot of marine fossils to be found in the Midwest plains areas.
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u/WingedLing 14d ago
Jesus youāre a huge nerd.
wanna see my marine fossil collection?
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u/RunningPains 14d ago
Is that like 25% success rate per attempt? Because that really doesn't sound very bad.
I've worked with vultures and they're awesome, from my experience they have way more personality than eagles, scavengers are also very useful to the ecosystem.
I've worked with a lot of bird species from black, martial and snake eagles to barn, white faced, and eagle owls to macaw and grey parrots to cape and lappet-faced vultures, to crows. And the vultures had the best and funniest personalities to be honest and were a lot less aggressive than other birds if prey which let their personalities show through more.
Bald eagles are just large birds who live right outside of big cities in the west, so you almost always see them when you go camping etc, so they're rare enough to be special but common enough to be beloved by regular people. They also don't do anything to annoy humans so there's no reason to really dislike them like a lot of birds that live in/around cities.
Seeing vultures gather around a corpse is a special sight, and I can't think of anything similar to that in the west, they're wonderful animals and just because they don't dive bomb fish doesn't mean they're any less interesting.
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u/ysisverynice 14d ago
but is 25% success comfortable calories/effort or is it cutting it close?
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u/kazeespada 14d ago
Bald Eagles are generalist carnivores. They steal food from other birds of prey and even eat carrion. So even if their catch rates are terrible in regards to fish, they can just go bully some Ospreys.
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u/Seseellybon 13d ago
Googled for osprey fishing and found this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMw-PspfdkQ
Osprey are pretty. o.o'
If majestically derpy here.
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u/Piccolito 14d ago
wow, you worked at Google? how was the work? were you manually sorting search files?
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u/fezzikola 14d ago
Real people don't manually do sort and search stuff for google, that would be a huge waste even for a company like that. Interns do it
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u/enty6003 14d ago
I assume you're joking but they do genuinely outsource stuff like this at Google now, to make sure the results are palatable (especially with politically polemic topics). I think they're called Search Quality Raters. The algorithm is just step one.
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u/oddracingline 14d ago
Big mistake. They come back and will not leave you alone. The bane of Alaskan docks.
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u/ConeCandy 14d ago
My Alaskan friend called them "seagulls with knives".
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u/Lord_Rapunzel 14d ago
That's pretty accurate. They're god damn everywhere around Juneau and hang out wherever there's garbage.
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u/HardcoreKaraoke 14d ago
I was shocked at how many eagles and ravens were around Alaska when I went. These big ass ravens were basically walking around cities like pigeons and eagles were always flying around.
I assumed eagles were a lot more rare before I went up there.
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u/sciencebased 14d ago
I mean...I think they're cool so long as they don't steal the good stuff and just clean up the carcasses. But no question they're like seagulls. Ya know, with talons.
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u/StarshipMuffin 14d ago
Coolest golden retriever ever ā¦
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u/MoradaGirl 14d ago
My brother in Christ that's a Bald Eagle šŗšø
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u/MoradaGirl 14d ago
Astral realm brother we only speak with inside voices in this church.
Praise be!
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u/Rhubii 14d ago
Apologies, but if I may . . . I believe that is what one calls an amphibian, my friend under god.
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u/Astral-traveler-026 14d ago
OK OK, donāt yell it out loud. Heās very conscious about it. Heās already taking Rogaine for it.
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u/HardForRinku 14d ago
I would absolutely love to do that one day
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u/harley_rydr 14d ago
If you have wings and talons, go for it!
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u/HardForRinku 14d ago
I am angry yet i am impressed
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u/BreadAroma 14d ago
What happened to the ole switcharoo chain that people used to post?
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u/Bowler_300 14d ago
Its your final test for american citizenship.
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u/IsThatHearsay 14d ago
Isn't it illegal to feed Bald Eagles in the U.S.?
Actually not sure why I phrased that as a question, I know it is, both at state and federal levels, and punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.
Hope these guys filming weren't in the US...
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u/Lurkay1 14d ago
Well at least they fed it a natural fresh caught fish. Its not like they fed it Doritos or donut holes.
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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue 14d ago
Sounds like they violated the letter of the law, not the spirit.
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u/jzillacon 14d ago
Well the reason it exists is mainly for the same reasons you shouldn't feed bears or wildcats. If you get wild animals to associate humans with food then they'll be more likely to put themselves in dangerous situations because of it. It seems fine to let them have small things like fish or apples, but animals don't know what's socially acceptable to humans, to them there might not be much difference between eating food tossed by a human and hunting your neighbors dog.
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u/ParsnipsNicker 14d ago
I think in the USA its technically illegal to feed any wild animals. Technically it varies by state, but generally its illegal.
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u/VapeThisBro 14d ago
The act of feeding isn't necessarily illegal itself, but it can fall under harassment which is illegal under US law.
āHarassment" is legally considered any action that interrupts an animal's ānormal behavior patterns," so this includes trapping, petting, or feeding most animals.
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u/BraveryDuck 14d ago
Imagine being wild animal getting rewarded for bravely approaching a human with a top-notch scritchy scratch when some other human makes him stop and takes him away for "harassing" you
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u/truMalma 14d ago edited 14d ago
Is it really feeding him if he didn't think for one second the eagle would catch it?
edit: this is a genuine question you dimwits. I'll feed a wild bird on purpose to punish you for your rudeness.
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u/Sankt_Peter-Ording 14d ago
?? If the meat had fallen into the water, he would also have fed animals with it
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u/leroach 14d ago
This is illegal in the US. Do not feed, move, touch our eagles, please. Thank you.
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u/SoulessDeathNDespair 14d ago
Why do I keep seeing videos of people feeding what are supposed to be apex predators? Unless it's in a rehab facility this shouldn't be happening.
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u/Wooper250 14d ago
What is with all of the posts of people feeding wild animals? C'mon y'all this is even more dangerous than the kestrel...
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u/Lamourtattend 14d ago
Donāt š feed š wild š animals š
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u/Tacotuesdayftw 14d ago
Don't listen to this guy.
Wethey love it when you giveusthem fish.squawk
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u/SirReginaldTheDumb 14d ago
I specialize in bird law and legally you're obligated to disclose if you are a bird on the internet. This is your first warning bird.. we're onto you.
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u/ruiner8850 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is the 2nd heavily upvoted post today of people feeding a bald eagle. Not only is it illegal, but it's bad for the bird. You'd hope people in this sub would know better, but apparently 98% of people here don't give a shit about the bird or the law.
Edit: Downvote all you want, but this isn't fucking cool and it's illegal for a good reason. If you upvote this you support harming the bird.
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u/Rainshadow_ 14d ago
How is it bad for the bird? Genuinely asking.
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u/beowolfey 14d ago
Giving this eagle a single fish isnāt likely going to tip the scales, but the sum total of this kind of thing might. None of these are a given, but some possibilities:
Eagles learn that humans are an easy source of food. Eagles start following humans around in addition to hunting themselves. Eagles become dependent on humans but also exceed their normal population density that can be supported by wild food sources. This causes harm to the food sources they would normally be eating and may cause rippling effects through the ecosystem.
Basically, Earth is ever at a balance, and our actions that disrupt this balance however small can have deep unseen consensequences across many things.
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u/truMalma 14d ago
If you upvote this you support harming the bird.
or you don't check downvoted comments and aren't around birds ever
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u/JohnJamesRambo1 14d ago
Hmmm. There's probably a law on the books that make this a criminal offense. Believe It or Not!!!
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u/ForwardKnee4076 14d ago
If you condition apex predators like this to come to humans for food, itāll end up snatching away a toddler for food
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u/jmcclaskey54 14d ago
What lake? Do we know?
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u/bearmademansuit 14d ago
Looks like somewhere in Pacific Northwest
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u/Maya_Dixie_Normous 14d ago
Definitely looks like the San Juan islands in Washington State.
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u/heretouplift 14d ago
pretty sure thatās Waldo Lake in Oregon. you just canāt see the mountainy parts
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u/AndrewKetterly 14d ago
You can't have power boats on Waldo and the water is so pure and clean that there isn't really much fish life to be found there. First time I ever saw leeches though.
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u/Maya_Dixie_Normous 14d ago
Ooooh! Good eye. It still reminds me of the San Juanās, but could very well be Oregon for sure. Beautiful regardless.
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u/heretouplift 14d ago
lol Iām just making shit up. every time I go west, I get high in Colorado and forget what Iām doing
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u/dcjones17 14d ago
Almost positive this is west coast of Vancouver island. Somewhere between port renfrew and ucluelet.
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u/Freeman2694 14d ago
Can this be considered bad for the eagle since regularly feeding wildlife threatens its ability to hunt on its own?
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u/PainfulPeanutBlender 14d ago •
How come no one ever cares about the fish? From the eyes of the fish that was a pretty dick move
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u/glazedhamster 14d ago
r/reverseanimalrescue has some gnarly fish dickery if that's your thing but mostly it's just shoving kittens into sewers and things of that nature.
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u/lunatiHK 14d ago
Itās actually videos of animals getting rescued but in reverse
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u/UberNerdism 14d ago
No one ever said āThereās plenty of Bald Eagles in the air.ā
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u/SadaamsScrotom 14d ago
Spend time in Dutch harbor and you will change your mind about them hahaha. Still magnificent, just not as much there.
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u/shaiyl 14d ago
You wouldn't believe the metric fuckton of bald eagles on Vancouver Island tho. We're pretty close to maximum eagle.
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u/WhatuuupKrisp 14d ago
Considering the oceans are almost empty we should probably change that saying anyway.
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u/PinkTalkingDead 14d ago
Are they though? Iāve always heard a fed animal is a dead animal when referencing wildlife
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u/anonymous_lighting 14d ago
i thought everyone is poopooing feeding wild animals? after the guy with the bird laying eggs in planter on 20th floor
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u/Reason_unreasonably 14d ago
There are many reasons not to feed wild animals but I don't know if the reason people are saying not to do it has much to do with a bird laying eggs on the 20th floor.
City birds gotta city bird. There ain't enough trees to go round and some of them are cliff nesters anyway.
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u/H-isgreat 14d ago
Donāt fucking feed wild animals, yea theyāre cool but they need to hunt and not rely on human interference.
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u/roboticzizzz 14d ago
What a shame to weaken such a majestic animal by feeding it scraps.
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u/420natureboy 14d ago
I just did this on the coast of Vancouver Island and itās a shame it doesnāt have sound, itās a lot louder than you think when they grab it