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03/13/07, 12:26 PM
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Any Bald Eagle Lovers ?
Thought I'd share this with the group. At the botanical gardens here in Norfolk, Va. The Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries has set up a web cam monitoring an active Bald Eagle nest. I've been watching for the last several weeks because the eggs were due to hatch this Month. I logged on this morning and saw one hatching and now there are two. She has been sitting on three eggs and hopefully all three will hatch. Here's the link, enjoy !
http://www.wvec.com/cams/eagle.html
Thanks,
Brian
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03/13/07, 12:34 PM
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Hey that's cool. I used to live in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. There are so many eagles there that I have shooed them from the bed of my pick-up on garbage day. One day I noticed they all seemed to dissappear. A few days later I was exploring a place called Humpy Cove and found their rookery. Must have been hundreds of nests with more eagles than I could count circling above all the nests. It was one of the truly aweome sights I've seen.
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03/13/07, 12:55 PM
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I love them. they taste like chicken, lol
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03/13/07, 01:19 PM
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No Silly - they taste just like spotted owl which tastes just like chicken.
I belong to the original PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals.
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03/13/07, 01:43 PM
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Just a good looking Buzzard. 
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03/13/07, 02:25 PM
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Cool. I used to live in Williamsburg. Nice area. I miss it at times.
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03/27/08, 08:21 AM
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Thought I would bump this up again this year,
http://www.wvec.com/cams/eagle.html
I watched it in 07 and it has been very interesting again this year.
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03/27/08, 09:30 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by big rockpile
Just a good looking Buzzard.
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Your right Rock they are both the same bird, except the eagle has a white head, and they both eat dead rotten meat.
A couple of week ago here in Virginia a man caught a Bald Eagle that had an injured wing and could not fly, and he rolled it up in a coat and called The DNR and they took it away to help it.
While he was holding the Bald Eagle it grabbed hold of his hand with one of his claws and made a small scratch.
Later on it began to swell and become infected.
He went to hospital and found out the Bald Eagle has a small case of rabies and now he had to take shots.
His options were one shot of medicine in his stomach every day for 21 days
straight, or take all of the shots in one day.
He took the All shots in one day potion which was 7 small shots across his belly, then wait 30 minutes and then have 7 more, and wait 30 minutes, and then have 7 more small shots with a small needle.
He said it was not all that bad, but the shot that hurt the most was the tetanus shot that did hurt.
The man is ok now. Haven't heard about the Bald Eagle.
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03/27/08, 10:27 AM
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Hey.
The talons of a bald eagle can exert 200 psi. Human grasp is about 30 psi. He dodged one bullet and got hit by another.
RF
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03/27/08, 10:35 AM
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The claws may painfly hurt.
But the rabies can kill.
bumpus.
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03/27/08, 10:47 AM
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There are lots here along the coast and the Columbia river. I've heard them called "sky-rats", but not by environmentalists :0) But really, it's an affectionate term.
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03/27/08, 01:11 PM
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On my last visit to the Charlotte County landfill here is SW FL I was amazed at the number of bald eagles (must have been 10 or so) waiting for the next trash truck to dump. A couple of them were fighting over a diaper that was dumped on the last load. Yuck!
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03/27/08, 01:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bumpus
Your right Rock they are both the same bird, except the eagle has a white head, and they both eat dead rotten meat.
A couple of week ago here in Virginia a man caught a Bald Eagle that had an injured wing and could not fly, and he rolled it up in a coat and called The DNR and they took it away to help it.
While he was holding the Bald Eagle it grabbed hold of his hand with one of his claws and made a small scratch.
Later on it began to swell and become infected.
He went to hospital and found out the Bald Eagle has a small case of rabies and now he had to take shots.
His options were one shot of medicine in his stomach every day for 21 days
straight, or take all of the shots in one day.
He took the All shots in one day potion which was 7 small shots across his belly, then wait 30 minutes and then have 7 more, and wait 30 minutes, and then have 7 more small shots with a small needle.
He said it was not all that bad, but the shot that hurt the most was the tetanus shot that did hurt.
The man is ok now. Haven't heard about the Bald Eagle.
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That is an interesting story except that bald eagles can't get rabies. Only mammals can get rabies.
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03/27/08, 01:40 PM
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http://books.google.ca/books?id=h145...l=en#PPA389,M1
page 388
chickens have been infected artificially and there is anecdotal evidence that carrion eaters have contracted rabies.
i would think that if a bird had fed upon a carcass of a rabid animal and had the infected blood still on their talons when they broke skin it could infect a human or other warm blooded animal.
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03/27/08, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ford major
http://books.google.ca/books?id=h145...l=en#PPA389,M1
page 388
chickens have been infected artificially and there is anecdotal evidence that carrion eaters have contracted rabies.
i would think that if a bird had fed upon a carcass of a rabid animal and had the infected blood still on their talons when they broke skin it could infect a human or other warm blooded animal.
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The rabies virus is inactivated (killed) by heat, sunlight, and drying. If the material containing the virus is dry, it won't cause rabies. So maybe if the eagle had just gotten blood on it's talons from an infected animal and then immediately scratched the man, he could have contracted rabies from the eagle/
Also, bumpus states that the man went to the hospital where he was checked for rabies. Unless the man already had full-blown rabies (in which case the shots would't work), the only way to know if the eagle was rabid was to kill it and do a necropsy on it. He says the DNR had already taken the eagle away and he didn't know what became of it.
Also, they no longer give 21 shots in the stomach for rabies exposure. It's a series of shots given over 30 days and most are given in the arm.
Last edited by LisaInN.Idaho; 03/27/08 at 02:25 PM.
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03/27/08, 02:14 PM
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We don't see many bald eagles here - BUT, love the turkey vultures.
Vultures are the last stop for diseases in a dead animal. Mad Cow, Foot and Mouth, Rabies, all of them - the vulture feeds on a dead animal - whatever disease it may have had in its body is done once in the vulture. The vulture's defecation is strong enough to kill any germs it may have gotten on its talons.
They are fascinating creatures!
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03/27/08, 02:31 PM
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03/27/08, 05:51 PM
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Thanks JasoninMin, I used to work for a vet and in suspected cases of rabies the head had to be frozen and sent in with in a certain time period, never sent in the first claw, and for the record I don't think there is such a thing as "a little case of rabies".
The pictures are just beautifull. We used to have a nest of vultures in the pines behind our house, don't know what happined to them, they have been gone for several years now, and I just loved watching the birds soar in the morning.
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