wow... if they mate with the bald eagle what a cool chance to get an all white eagle...
Wait until you can’t get rid of them like carp, Asian beetles, Eurasian water milfoil, kudzu, and buckthorn. Kill them on sight!
So how did this majestic creature end up so far from home? It’s not unheard of for birds to stray from their homeland, a phenomenon known as vagrancy.
Sometimes it’s environmental factors such as climate change or habitat loss that push them out of their natural range. But sometimes it’s just an internal navigation failure.
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Wrong-way raptor. Covid messed up the bird’s GPS system.
Man, look at the talons on that baby.
Hmmmmph.
Looks like a buzzard.
When you have Wings you can go almost anywhere
So the Russian invasion has already started?
“Sometimes it’s environmental factors such as climate change or habitat loss that push them out of their natural range.”
They just had to get that climate-change thing in there.
Happy that it made it out of Texas without meeting up with a wind generator
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!
Are these the same eagles used to hunt down 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 People's Republic of Massachusetts? Wouldn't they be happier with the Russian monster Stalin?
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.
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!
I have lived here in Enfield, NY (Ithaca city of evil adjacent town) for over 40 years and just saw the first eagle here a couple months ago. He flew right across my windshield, I couldn’t have gotten a better look at him. It was just a bald eagle not this fancy schmancy eagle, but WOW! What a site to see. Haven’t seen him since.
It was maybe 1/2 a mile from my house.
