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Offline Upland Idaho

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Eagle catches deer
« on: July 09, 2007, 04:59:38 AM »


Try this one...I've worked with a couple Golden Eagles and they are amazing creatures. I believe the deer is a Roe...from the small size...any guesses?
http://www.break.com/index/catching-a-deer-with-a-bird.html
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Re: Eagle catches deer
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2007, 11:17:03 AM »
There are several places in Scotland where this can be seen and even take part in. The deer is certainly a Roe the bird looks like a Golden Eagle. It's my understanding that they are usually used in pairs for this. Somewhere I have a flier I picked up at an Bird of Prey demonstration outside the Stewart Crystal showrooms near Perth in Scotland some years back whilst on holiday.

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Re: Eagle catches deer
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2007, 04:18:44 AM »
In his book “A Connecticut Yankee in the Frontier Ozarks”, T. P. Russel describes several attacks by eagles on White tailed deer.  In most of these cases they were on fawns but as I remember it in one was on a full grown buck.    These attacks were made on the eye regions of the deer’s head.  Russell’s family moved from Connecticut to the Ozarks in the 1830s. 
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