[Willie Green]

ping

[ClearCase_guy]

"The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!"

[JenB]

ecurbh, ring ping.

Anyone got a pic of Western PA's favorite grocery store to post?

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[bikepacker67]

Here's the talon compared to a regular sized eagle:

[shaggy eel]

Research into DNA from ancient moa "poop" and from soil in former petrel breeding colonies is currently underway.

,,, tastes like moa!

Just started back at work today after the Christmas/New Year break. Happy New Year Willie!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

With a 2.5-3m wingspan weighing in at between 10 and 14 kg, Haast´s eagle was about 30-40% heavier than the largest living bird of prey

While these numbers do indicate an impressive bird...they are by no means as large as the eagles who save Sam and Frodo's toasted butts.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Each report brings us more fiction and less science.

[ForGod'sSake]

Feh! THIS is a giant eagle:

[Restorer]

The large herbivores were available, and after killing a moa, an eagle would have been able to feed unhindered.

So how did the "less than 1 kg" Little Eagle kill the moas to begin with?

[SunkenCiv]

Huge eagles 'dominated NZ skies'
by Alex Kirby
Tuesday, 4 January, 2005

it was driven to oblivion about five centuries ago, just 200 years or so after the first humans arrived... The researchers, led by Professor Alan Cooper from Oxford's Ancient Biomolecules Centre, extracted DNA from fossil eagle bones dating back about 2,000 years... What they showed was that the New Zealand bird was in fact related to one of the world's smallest eagles - the little eagle from Australia and New Guinea, which typically weighs less than 1kg (two pounds). Yet the Haast's eagle weighed between 10kg (1st 8lb) and 14kg (2st 3lb) - between 30% and 40% heavier than the largest living bird of prey alive today, the harpy eagle of Latin America, and was approaching the upper weight limit for powered flight... Nerc says: "Haast's eagle is the only eagle known to have been the top predator in a major terrestrial ecosystem. "They hunted moa, the herbivorous, flightless birds of New Zealand [now also extinct], which weighed up to 200kg (31st 7lb)... Forest fires destroyed its habitat and humans exterminated its food supply. There is also some evidence to suggest the eagles were hunted.

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution. Topic from 2005.

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[SunkenCiv]

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The eagles struck from the side (Image courtesy of John Megahan)

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