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On 2/20/2017 9:33 PM, bdigout wrote:
> This might be more common than we think. A couple of years ago in
> Samsonville, Rich. Co. several of us watched an eagle hover over the
> water and repeatedly swoop down, chasing a cormorant. Each time the
> cormorant surfaced the eagle would swoop. When the cormorant was finally
> exhausted, the eagle grabbed it and, like Eric said, swam it to shore.
* I've never seen this carried through to the end, but I've always
understood it to be a standard hunting technique of Bald Eagles.
fred.
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> On 19 Feb 2017 20:20, Eric Mills wrote:
>
>> Early this afternoon I was scanning the shoreline at Eagle Head Beach
>> in Queen's County. From beside me an adult Bald Eagle chased a large
>> dark bird out onto the water, forcing it down behind a rocky islet.
>> For two or three minutes nothing happened, then the eagle emerged,
>> dragging a still struggling cormorant - but swimming, not flying, with
>> such a big bird. It was about 150m to shore, and the eagle flapped on
>> through the water for several minutes, using the avian equivalent of
>> the breast-stroke, until it was able to emerge on a rock with the now
>> very dead cormorant, and begin to tear it apart.
>>
>>
>>
>> I concluded that this was one very hungry eagle - all that effort,
>> swimming no less - for a meal as appetizing as a cormorant.
>>
>>
>>
>> Eric L. Mills
>>
>> Lower Rose Bay
>>
>> Lunenburg Co., NS
>>
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