We have Ospreys here........... BOTH KINDS!.................... 
Posted on 12/22/2021 6:43:55 AM PST by Red Badger
Vince: How long did you|actually live in Guatemala?
Sheldon: I was in the jungle, the bush, we called it...for approximately nine months.
Vince: Nine months? My God, that really must have been something.
Sheldon: It was unbelievable. I saw things...They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles.
Sheldon: Really.
Vince: In the evening, I would stand in front of my hut and watch in horror...
...as these giant flies would pick children off the ground and carry them away. Oh, it was an incredible sight. Peasants screaming...chasing these flies down the road, waving brooms. You can imagine|the pathetic quality of this.
Waving these crudely fashioned brooms at these enormous flies...as they carried their children off|to almost certain death.
Sheldon: Oh, my, that is just|the most horrible thing. You’re sure these are flies you’re talking about?
Vince: Flies. Natives had a name for them. Jos Grecos de Muertos.
“Flamenco dancers of death.” These enormous flies flapping slowly away into the sunset. Small brown babies clutched in their beaks.
Sheldon: Beaks? Flies with beaks?
On another note the Mrs. and I saw a Golden Eagle about 10’ away from our car as we were driving home. BIG bird!
Covid?
Nah, it was 5G being rolled out in Asia that messed this one up.
So this bird can’t mate with other species of eagles, whether fishers or bald?
Are these the same eagles used to hunt down wolves on the plains of Asia?
We have Ospreys here........... BOTH KINDS!....................
I don’t know.
I’ve never hunted wolves on the plains of Asia..............
Unless it gets a mate, birdwatchers might just have a limited time to catch a sight of the species in the area.
The Sea Eagle will head South, mate with the War Eagle, and the Sea War Eagles will rule over out descendants.
The People's Republic of Massachusetts? Wouldn't they be happier with the Russian monster Stalin?
Animals have been know to breed with ‘cousin species’.......................
Pretty cool videos of them on YouTube trained by Mongolian herdsmen to hunt wolves.
5K miles from it’s native range? They can be found in Russia, China, Japan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.Breeding takes place on the Kamchatka peninsula-which is where the Russians come in, to grab a newborn for falconers to purchase and raise up/train. Reasonable conjecture given the “trade”.
Falconer types do this quite a lot (in the trade in Saker Falcons in Romania, and Laggar Falcons in Pakistan, Peregrines elsewhere)
As to falconer’s with Steller’s in possession in a place very much farther away than NH— here’s a photo of a falconer in the UK with a very large one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_sea_eagle#/media/File:Stellers_Sea_Eagle_with_Man.jpg
How does a “birder” get attention on the net— clicks. A not unreasonable thought- especially trying to say the single bird came
Way to test this, unlikely for a birder photog to do- is to have a real pro falconer— try to call this bird in. Even so- it could still be an escapee from someone’s private falconry operation.
One other observation- would have to see more photos- sure to be provided with the crowd this guy photo’d:
The comparative photo with Bald Eagles compares this Steller’s with two juvenile Bald Eagles— from what is photo’d on the twatter link. Juvenile Bald Eagles have not matured to the white head feathers.
Global warming. 😐
It’s wings are each 6 inches longer than a full grown female bald eagle. And slightly bigger than a brown eagle. But we have cranes and great blues as well. Big birds in general are making a resurgence. Lake Michigan is filled with bald eagles now. So is the northern Mississippi. They were not there at all 20 years ago.
Same here....................
Yeah— caught that comment also— absolutely ridiculous for a single bird to go that far from normal range, and they come up with “global warming”. Falconer’s getting paid to scam for global warming more like. See post above yours here for a photo of a UK guy with a mature huge bird.
5K miles is the “over the Pole” route for a single bird to NS and then NH?— there being nothing to eat along the way if the polar route? Doubt seriously either overland/ocean routes. Hummingbirds, however do migrate over the Gulf of Mexico to Mexico (little bitty birds).
https://www.distance.to/Kamchatka/Scotland,GBR
https://www.distance.to/Kamchatka-Krai,RUS/Nova-Scotia,CAN
I’ve heard the hummingbirds hitch rides on geese or cranes.
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A little closer to Trumpeter Swan.
Those fish eaters all taste fishy.
It’s like when Frankie Pentangeli’s brother showed up from Sicily at the Senate hearing as a warning for Frankie to get his act together.
C’mon, American bald eagles, get it together!
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