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Amtrak train kills bald eagle eating dead deer on tracks near Aberdeen
The Baltimore Sun ^
| 02/04/2011
| The Associated Press
Posted on 02/04/2011 11:34:00 AM PST by speciallybland
A bald eagle was killed by a train Thursday morning while enjoying breakfast on a stretch of tracks near Abderdeen, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Craig Koppie, an eagle coordinator with the federal agency, said the rare encounter happened in a flash. The bird was eating a deer carcass about 8:30 a.m. as an Amtrak train headed to Washington approached. An engineer spotted the bird and blasted his horn, but the eagle took off too slowly and was hit.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: amtrak; baldeagle; baldeagles; deer; eagle; eagles; train; trains
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To: speciallybland; tgusa; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; Squidster; kbennkc
Would this be Obama’s version of Quetzalcoatl?
Bald Eagles are anything but endangered nowadays. We got em up the wazoo.
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:45:12 AM PST
by
sinanju
To: speciallybland
It’s Bush’s fault AND due to global warming.
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:45:39 AM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: ßuddaßudd
Depends on who the engineer voted for last election.
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:45:59 AM PST
by
MrB
(Tagline suspended for important announcement on my about page. Click my handle.)
To: speciallybland
The govt should look into putting eagle-whistles on trains.
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:48:10 AM PST
by
fruser1
To: swain_forkbeard
I’m glad you have this figgered out—LOL!
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:49:59 AM PST
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Abderdeen? Sounds Arabic.
To: speciallybland
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:55:08 AM PST
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: speciallybland
DDT used to take these weak eagles out of the gene pool...
HEY, YOU’RE AN EAGLE! GO KILL THINGS!
To: speciallybland
If the train driver was a regular American and not a union goon dhim, he’d be facing years of harassment and fines from miscellaneous gov’t agencies.
To: speciallybland
We had a deal!
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:56:17 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(The word for actor in Greek is hypocrite (its true).)
To: Fiji Hill
Abderdeen? Sounds Arabic.
Actually named for a place in Scotland. The location of Aberdeen Proving Grounds where the Army tests weapons and vehicles. The test area is sits on Chesapeake Bay and is a haven for all sorts of wildlife. I have often watched Bald Eagles out on the test ranges.
To: swain_forkbeard
Yes. Its just past Harve De Grace.
Or, in this case, Coup de Grace...
Colonel, USAFR
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posted on
02/04/2011 11:57:19 AM PST
by
jagusafr
("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
To: swain_forkbeard; SunkenCiv; neverdem; narses
Craig Koppie, an eagle coordinator with the federal agency ... So, at a salary of 120,000.00 per year, with benefits costing us - for his one position alone probably $150,000.00 per year - plus an office and office staff travel and per diem and field visits and power and heat and rent and a car and a research budget and a ... what else has this “eagle-eyed” expert done for our nation this year?
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:01:02 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: speciallybland
oh da manatee!
This is NOT a top story
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:01:58 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
To: Jolla
Time to outlaw trains.Keep the trains but regulate their speed so the eagles will be safe, perhaps 4 MPH would be appropriate?
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:02:46 PM PST
by
relee
('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
To: centurion316
That's "Ab
derdeen"
Quality reporting and proofing these days.
To: jagusafr
When will the Fish and Wildlife Service come out to arrest the Amtrak train for killing an endangered species? How does one put handcuffs on a diesel-electric locomotive? How does one transport it to jail and is their a big enough cell? Hmmmm.
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:03:49 PM PST
by
MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
To: swain_forkbeard
Its just past Harve De Grace. Wasn't De Grace a shortstop for the Orioles?
I thought nothing could get past ole Harve.
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:04:06 PM PST
by
Palmetto Patriot
(Just exactly when is the next Election?)
To: GeronL
My wife and I were taking Amtrak to Chicago from San Fran one time. Our train hit a cow at about 4 in the morning. Did I mention the cow was dead and frozen solid?
When we debarked in Chicago it looked like the engine had hit a 900 pound mosquito. What a mess.
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:04:50 PM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: ßuddaßudd
Maybe they have a F&WS “Incidental Take” permit?
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posted on
02/04/2011 12:07:02 PM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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