Crc

Originally posted by Badwater
"Eagle" is a name given to a really large raptor. Owls are like other owls, hawks like hawks, and falcons like falcons, but 'eagle' is a name given to anything big. There's a lot of dissimilarity between eagles. A Golden Eagle, for example, not only looks like a big red-tailed hawk, they have a red-tailed hawk's temperment. A bald eagle, on the other hand, ...[text shortened]... an eagle, for there is no room for error. That is what I teach, and I have not yet failed.

Originally posted by Badwater
This is what I do in my spare time. I help in all areas of Cascades Raptor Center, including running the place. You can see me at 2:46-2:48 with Puck, an American Kestrel, where I'm doing a handler talk.

You animal lovers will love this. You animal haters can keep it to yourselves. 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBM4qugwJJ0

Originally posted by Badwater
This is what I do in my spare time. I help in all areas of Cascades Raptor Center, including running the place. You can see me at 2:46-2:48 with Puck, an American Kestrel, where I'm doing a handler talk.

You animal lovers will love this. You animal haters can keep it to yourselves. 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBM4qugwJJ0

Originally posted by zozozozo
I understand theres lots of species, not as many as there are micro-organisms tho!;o

Ok, but they will only try to use thier talons on you? when u hold the tolans will it not try to bite you? i can imagine it could do some serious damage with those beaks too

Originally posted by Badwater
This is what I do in my spare time. I help in all areas of Cascades Raptor Center, including running the place. You can see me at 2:46-2:48 with Puck, an American Kestrel, where I'm doing a handler talk.

You animal lovers will love this. You animal haters can keep it to yourselves. 😉

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBM4qugwJJ0

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Where I live in North Dakota it is called the prairie pothole region and the waterfowl nest here. But we have bald eagles that live here the year round now. The many varieties of hawks migrate south in the winter, but we have had a large hawk hanging around lately. I think it is the same one we watched for 45 minutes in our yard about three years ago with one of its young. It is a buteo, and the closest one I could find in a book was the Swainson's hawk. I have never seen one here in January. We have had it -33 degrees recently! One of the cottontails we feed along with our small birds got hit by a car yesterday. It is gone today and I imagine the hawk cleaned it off the road. In the summer we have a night heron that spends weeks at our pond in the hayfield. The great blue herons and white egrets, as well as cattle egrets, are thick in certain areas. We also have nesting white pelicans on the large slough that borders our land. Of course the ducks are the most numerous. But we have Canada geese who nest all around this area because our closest neighbor got permission to clip the wings of several pair about 25 years ago and the females always return to where they hatched, so that started the process. Many people here do not know why we now have Canada geese! The snow geese are more numerous but only stop here to rest and feed during the spring and fall migrations. I never saw them in the 1930's. I heard that they used to follow a different migratory path but were once driven off-course by a storm. They had to fly over our state and found it more to their liking.

Originally posted by Badwater
Eagles, especially bald eagles, will try to bite as well. I hold them as low as I can so they can't bite my face. But the feet exert about 1500 foot pounds (hey, that's a pun! lol) of force so I'm more concerned with controlling feet than getting a bruise from a bite.

Originally posted by ale1552
Where I live in North Dakota it is called the prairie pothole region and the waterfowl nest here. But we have bald eagles that live here the year round now. The many varieties of hawks migrate south in the winter, but we have had a large hawk hanging around lately. I think it is the same one we watched for 45 minutes in our yard about three years ago with on ...[text shortened]... riven off-course by a storm. They had to fly over our state and found it more to their liking.

For quite a few years now there have been peregrine falcons nesting on top of the Federal Bank Building in Fargo. They built a box for them the second year that has a camera attached so that they can watch the entire process of hatching, feeding, etc. This is sent over a web site. They mate for life but Dakota Ace...the male... has lost a couple of mates. Frieda was his first mate. The Fargo Forum newspaper has a running account of the entire doings. These are banded each year and followed from location to location. Any deaths are reported back to the Wild Life Agency here. The public names the babies in contests each year. You mentioned the Cascades. Where are you located in the state of Washington? I have three sisters and a son all around the Puget Sound area. All of my sisters have creeks and acres of woods just as I once did. My oldest sister lives between Kent and Auburn near the Issaquah cut-off. I cannot access videos or any of the websites people list on these forums. But thank you for wanting to share information. We normally have NO hawks this time of year. That is why I am so puzzled.

AWESOME!

Originally posted by ale1552
For quite a few years now there have been peregrine falcons nesting on top of the Federal Bank Building in Fargo. They built a box for them the second year that has a camera attached so that they can watch the entire process of hatching, feeding, etc. This is sent over a web site. They mate for life but Dakota Ace...the male... has lost a couple of mates. ...[text shortened]... to share information. We normally have NO hawks this time of year. That is why I am so puzzled.