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eagle catches deer. You got to see this

Very impressive! And that's not even an adult Golden! I want to be a Master Falconer someday...!
 
Great video Vinnie. I wish it was longer.
I have a good friend who is a Falconer. He owns a Great Horned Owl named Alex and Red Tailed Hawk named Hicks. He hunts with Hicks and is working on getting Alex to hunt as well. In his group of falconers one of the guys owns an eagle like the one in the video. I know it is from Russia and I believe it is a Harpy Eagle but I'll check with him to be sure. The animal is huge and perfectly capable of taking down a small deer. Very impressive to watch in action I'm sure. It always amazes me to see the hawks in my neighborhood hunt. I lost a 20lb duck to a very determined Red Tailed hawk. She couldn't carry it away but she sure tried!
Terri
 
crackerhead said:
Great video Vinnie. I wish it was longer.
I have a good friend who is a Falconer. He owns a Great Horned Owl named Alex and Red Tailed Hawk named Hicks. He hunts with Hicks and is working on getting Alex to hunt as well. In his group of falconers one of the guys owns an eagle like the one in the video. I know it is from Russia and I believe it is a Harpy Eagle but I'll check with him to be sure. The animal is huge and perfectly capable of taking down a small deer. Very impressive to watch in action I'm sure. It always amazes me to see the hawks in my neighborhood hunt. I lost a 20lb duck to a very determined Red Tailed hawk. She couldn't carry it away but she sure tried!
Terri
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WOW. Lucky you can do that where you live, cant do that in the Bronx
 
crackerhead said:
Great video Vinnie. I wish it was longer.
I have a good friend who is a Falconer. He owns a Great Horned Owl named Alex and Red Tailed Hawk named Hicks. He hunts with Hicks and is working on getting Alex to hunt as well. In his group of falconers one of the guys owns an eagle like the one in the video. I know it is from Russia and I believe it is a Harpy Eagle but I'll check with him to be sure. The animal is huge and perfectly capable of taking down a small deer. Very impressive to watch in action I'm sure. It always amazes me to see the hawks in my neighborhood hunt. I lost a 20lb duck to a very determined Red Tailed hawk. She couldn't carry it away but she sure tried!
Terri
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Do you think it might be a steppe eagle? although golden eagles are larger. Harpy eagles are from africa and they prey on monkeys.
 
diamondlil said:
Do you think it might be a steppe eagle? although golden eagles are larger. Harpy eagles are from africa and they prey on monkeys.
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Janine you are most probably right. You know how a name gets stuck in your head and if you actually sat down and reasoned it out you would see that it was not logical at all? I was thinking Russian but Harpy was the name that popped into my head. I had a nagging suspicion I was wrong hence the "I'll have to check with my friend" disclaimer. Thanks for the correction!
Terri
 
crackerhead said:
Janine you are most probably right. You know how a name gets stuck in your head and if you actually sat down and reasoned it out you would see that it was not logical at all? I was thinking Russian but Harpy was the name that popped into my head. I had a nagging suspicion I was wrong hence the "I'll have to check with my friend" disclaimer. Thanks for the correction!
Terri
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No worries.............I got a 'birds of europe' guidebook before my Gibraltar holiday and read it religiously to help ID any raptors I'd spot!
 
Amazing. Falconry is cool..but never being able to go on vacation again would suck. I will stick with watching others do it.
 
jlindp said:
Harpy eagles are actually native to South America (Mexico to Brazil and down to Argentina).
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Ah, thanks, all I can remember is the monkey hunting, (which is why I thought of Africa) and that harpy eagles have a crest. I tend to forget there are monkeys in South America :dunce:
 
diamondlil said:
Ah, thanks, all I can remember is the monkey hunting, (which is why I thought of Africa) and that harpy eagles have a crest. I tend to forget there are monkeys in South America :dunce:
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Lol, it's no problem! Harpy eagles are my favorite of the eagle family, followed closely by the Ornate Hawk-Eagle, so I've done many a report/research on them. :}

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Ornate Hawk-Eagle (photographer unknown)

My favorite of all the raptors is definitely a white morph Gyrfalcon. -sigh-

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(Property of NWNature)
 
I do love birds of prey too, but I'm more familiar with the European ones (naturally!)
So far in real life I've watched wild kestrels and marsh harriers locally to me, buzzards in the Midlands, peregrins in Cornwall and now the booted eagles in Gibraltar. I generally don't have anyone to share my birdwatching with in real life, so I love the fact that there are people with similar interests on here!
The peregrins were one of the biggest thrills of my life, I was laying on a cliff-top at Tintagel watching them stoop on rock doves.
 
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