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Crested caracaras I'm guessing? I've heard of them but they're way rarer than bald eagles here. Didn't realize how cool-looking they were.
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Yes, I believe that is the correct one. And yeah, they are pretty cool looking birds. It's pretty common for people to see the white head and think it was an eagle. I'm not all that good with birds, but I think they may be present all the time here (i.e. not just winter nesting).
I've seen them mixed in with a bunch of vultures eating a carcass, I guess those two species get along well enough
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Omg she almost as cool as u
no sense denying it.
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all the "well played" gifs look sarcastic, so to be clear, that was a good one. well played lol
Thread is bullshit. There are no Freedom Eagles in mother Russia
they are like fucking rats around here
not really around here but squawmish and pemberton BC both have shit loads of bald eagles and have basically built their tourism industry around eagle tours. they feast on the salmon when they run inland . we mainly have red tailed hawks and perigrine falcons where i live but you do see the odd bald eagle too
not really around here but squawmish and pemberton BC both have shit loads of bald eagles and have basically built their tourism industry around eagle tours. they feast on the salmon when they run inland . we mainly have red tailed hawks and perigrine falcons where i live but you do see the odd bald eagle too
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They are attempting a re-introduction into the wild soon in California I read recently
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since none of the bird experts here have chymed in, id say yes. if i saw that, id think it was a bald eagle too
question. was it circling? (which im guessing may indicate hunting) or was it a fly-by?
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Was it soaring like that the whole time or did it flap its wings occasionally?
If the former, it's probably a vulture. If the latter, probably an eagle.
Looks like a bald eagle.
We have a bunch of turkey vultures here - it was about 3x higher than what they typically fly around at. It was circling, but very wide circles. Way up there.
I didn't notice any flapping at all. Just big, wide circles - like a 1/2 mile diameter circle. It was like it was in an updraft or something. Most of the vultures around here fly around in groups. This dude was by himself - and roughly 3x higher than I typically see vultures at.
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Turkey vultures ride thermals extremely high
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It was a vulture. They’ll climb as high as the thermal allows