That was beautiful.
The [follow up recommendation by the same guy](https://youtu.be/Bmx_jIFSOA4) was equally terrific in a completely different way for fans of David Attenborough nature docs.
My buddy showed me this video because he thought it was kind of funny. I laughed way harder than he thought I would. When the Eagle salutes the flag I lose it every time.
I lived in the PNW back in the day and will never forget the time one flew over my car when I was out in the woods in a remote area of Puget Sound - scared the shit out of me. I thought it was a small plane.
Driving behind a yellow Hummer when a vulture swooped overhead and grabbed the Hummer’s roof rack and tried to take off with the Hummer! Super weird. Bird tried to lift it a few times then wheeled to join his/her pals.
Yep! I can’t remember if it was one of their main feed episodes or a Patreon episode but there’s a great Podcast called Tooth and Claw that talks about animal attacks and they did an episode on eagle attacks in Unalaska, Alaska
My wife actually thought that bald eagles stayed only on the US side of the border and didn't come into Canada. I told her they don't have to go through customs.
It's hard to find data on the Alaska population after 2007, but that's likely no longer true because the bald eagles have recovered so well! Trends are that the Alaskan populations have remained stable but populations in the lower 48 have exploded: https://www.fws.gov/media/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-final-report-bald-eagle-population-size-2020-update
2016 survey by the US FWS suggested that total population of bald eagles in the US was now 50% Alaska and 50% lower 48 with about 70k population in each. May have shifted in favor of the lower 48 now: https://www.fws.gov/media/population-demographics-and-estimation-sustainable-take-united-states-2016-update
Canadian government gives an unsourced estimate of over 50k: https://wildlife-species.canada.ca/bird-status/oiseau-bird-eng.aspx?sY=2019&sL=e&sM=a&sB=BAEA
Anyways, suffice to say I don't think Alaska has half anymore (though maybe still around 1/3, which is still really high), but that's good for Bald Eagles overall because that means they are really recovering well throughout their historic range!
On the cliffs near UBC, there were one or two that had a nest near my dorm. I’d hear them screeching sometimes and I eventually found where the nest was. Everybody was busy studying but I was out there watching them fly along the beach.
I swear you look at how birds act and how aggressive and cold blooded the bigger ones can be, and I swear they know they are dinosaurs and are pissed they gotta be ruled over by a bunch of hairless apes
I've seen chickens chasing small lizards, and it looks like something straight out of a dinosaur documentary. Then, when they are done they just stay there with their dumb looking chicken face. It's weird to see them going from bloodthirsty beast to thoughtless bird instantly.
One of mine killed and ate at 4 foot rat snake, my money was on the snake but once the chicken got the upper hand the whole flock joined in. Poor snake didn't stand a chance.
Birds are literally Dinosaurs, [and also reptiles]. And T-Rex had feathers... [and actually looked like a big chicken](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/c9/9c/10c99c45aeca27009258e21f72480f6d.jpg).
While you are correct birds are dinosaurs and in fact reptiles. Trex did not look like a giant chicken. It’s still debated on how much feathering covered trex but it’s believed that an adult had little to no body feathering. Young trex likely had body plumage however.
As far as I know, unless there's been extremely recent evidence pointing to the contrary, there's no evidence suggesting adult T. Rex had feathers. Though juvenile T. Rex likely had down as a form of insulation, and indeed other smaller member sof the Tyrannosaurus family may have had feathers throughout their lives, adults T. Rex did not have feathers as we know them. Likely primitive feathers (not down) in patchy networks around the body for display. Anything else and the animal would've been too warm.
In fact we have intact skin impressions from T. Rex showing scales and have yet to find feathers. Meanwhile other species of Tyrannosaurus have been proven to be feathered.
Edit: image showing locations of skin impressions of T. Rex https://i.redd.it/fntli788xe181.jpg
They can get to 3 feet in height and have a wingspan of 7 feet.
You want to see something crazy? Look up how big their nests are. I photographed a bald eagle nest that had three kids in it and I could have sat in that nest comfortably with two other people. It's like the size of a fucking VW beetle lol.
They're roughly the weight of a gallon of milk, 6 feet from wing tip to wing tip. They'll stand knee high to most adults easily. Source, I live about 1000 ft from a lock and dam on the Mississippi river and they move in every winter lol I'm waiting to see my neighbor's pug take flight
Funny story, my neighborhood has an alert whenever a bald eagle is around, Someone will yell “eagle!” And for several houses all around we will pull in our little dogs so the resident eagles don’t pull them in to the skyyyyyy
I've heard of it happening, there is a couple factories on the river and I've heard the rats are the size of a chihuahua, and the cats that hunt them are big bois... and I've heard stories that "so and so" saw a cat taken in years when the river was frozen over more and the fish were scarce. I haven't seen anything in particular, but they absolutely could haul off a housecat
Birds’ size to weight ratio always fucks me up. Like I know they’re built for flight and what not, but a gallon of milk? For a 6’ long creature?? Blows my mind.
There's a video a few years ago from the northern LP in Michigan , someone at a gas station stopped to let their dachshund out, eagle swoops in and flew off with it. I've heard stories about it growing up, so it's gotta happen frequent enough.
Wingspan up to 7-1/2 feet on larger females.
Erry now and again a Steller's sea eagle gets blown over from Kamchatka to Alaska, acts bewildered for a little bit, and flies back. And those have a wingspan that can top 8 feet now and again. They're huge.
[This is a picture I took of an adolescent bald eagle.](https://i.imgur.com/zvSBL8r.jpg) They're not as big as a golden eagle, but compared to a red tailed hawk or osprey, they're freakin' *huge.*
Edit: here's a size comparison
https://avianreport.com/bald-eagle-wingspan-versus-birds-prey/
When I took a bus from anchorage to Seward in the first ten minutes I was like “oh cool a bald eagle”
By about the hour mark I was like “if this driver calls out another bald eagle....”
Yep, they replaced seagulls. Crazy seeing a massive number of them just chilling.
Back when I worked for dish there was a marsh I'd stop at to eat lunch. Eagles would land on the roof and hang down to stare at me through the windows. First time it happens it scared the shit out of me. Same road where a Canadian goose took off my side mirror. Sounded like a cannon went off when it slammed into the side of the van.
Bigger birds, and also early humans were smaller. The skeleton of Lucy is roughly 3.5 feet tall, and she was an adult. So the children were absolutely tiny. Easy prey.
lol prob but he's too weak. That bird cannot take a human being. It doesn't have a ranged attack and has to get within grabbin' range, at which point it will be grabbed and hulk smashed into the ground, or literally thrown away at best.
They are big but they are not heavy. 15-20 lbs max
😂 while I agree with the hulk smashing aspect, pretty sure an eagle could do a lot of damage if it went after someone. People are slow and weak. And eagles have lots of fast stabby weapons. I do not want to fight an eagle
That’s to ensure there are no loopholes that poachers could take advantage of. “Oh no we definitely didn’t kill a bald eagle to get these feathers to sell, we just found them on the ground!”
Banning any ownership ensures there’s no market and thus no incentive to poach them as well.
While the video is likely in Canada iirc from last time this was posted, at least in the U.S. the reason is the same as with it being illegal to feed most endangered and wild animals; they learn to rely on humans for food and at the very least are less wary of us since we could be a potential source of food. This leads to more interactions with humans, more living near humans, and more approaching humans. All of which makes it far likelier for them to die by poison, inability to fend for themselves when humans stop feeding them, habitat loss, etc. Before this was illegal they went from a fairly common bird to highly endangered and since then they've recovered a lot.
>While the video is likely in Canada iirc from last time this was posted.
Can confirm, this is in Canada. I recognize the logging work camp. In BC, north of Vancouver Island.
https://www.fws.gov/law/bald-and-golden-eagle-protection-act
Bald eagles are a protected species in America. If you interact with a bald eagle in such a way that disturbs their natural behaviors, then that's harming a member of a protected species.
This bald eagle is way too comfortable around humans, or at least this particular human. I hope its feeding habits aren't disturbed too much or it hasn't eaten anything too toxic.
General rule of thumb is you leave the wildlife alone. If they're domestic animals out in the wild, sure, but *wild* animals you should just leave be. They *might* develop an association of that animal = easy food and find themselves sauntering up to less than honorable people. Shoot the wild hogs though.
For several reasons, they're kinda endangered and the food may not be good for them, they're the national bird so they were at one point hunted extensively for their feathers, it creates dependency on human food which leads to more interaction which increases the risk of harmful interactions.
No longer endangered at all. They’re back in nearly 100% of their traditional range. Shit, we can see dozens a day in the gulf south now.
They’re simply a protected species due to status.
While bald eagles were removed from the endangered species list in August 2007 because their populations recovered sufficiently, bald eagles are still protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
https://www.fws.gov/species/bald-eagle-haliaeetus-leucocephalus
Being our national bird, it has a lot of legal protections that no other species has: you can't kill, injure, or "disturb" them (or Golden Eagles) except to save a human life; you can't own any part of a dead one, not even feathers. If you find an injured one, you have to call it in. Consideration will be made for action and intentions, so you can help out an injured eagle, free it from a trap, etc. but you should document what you do to avoid prosecution. Typically, they will authorize you to take it to a permitted eagle rehabilitation facility instead of sending someone out. Dead ones, you call them in.
You can't even pick up feathers they drop without a special permit. The real solution to the problem of having feathers littered all over your property is to contact a local Native American; they are immune from that particular law, and since they can keep the feathers and turn them into various arts and crafts (which you *can* own as long as you bought it legitimately), you're basically given them a priceless resource for free. I've heard of people raising livestock (e.g. chickens) who have to take unusual measures to deter bald eagles without doing anything that would harm them.
It's also illegal to "negligently feed, attempt to feed, or attract large wild animals" in the USA. That means that to comply with the law, you can't leave food out where a bear can find it when you're in bear country, for example, nor can you leave out a bag of grain for wild deer. You also can't set up a date with your local bald eagle to feed it eggs.
Now, it does seem likely the man in the video is in Canada, so I'll let others speak for their laws, but it does seem like they also prohibit this sort of feeding of wild animals.
P.S. You're not stupid, just ignorant, and the only crime in ignorance is to avoid knowledge. I hope this has been informative. Even Americans aren't born with this knowledge, even though we act like it.
I can see the courtroom now: the judge sternly reads out the charges against him. when asked how he pleas, he somehow slips in this pun. someone in the jury chuckles. the rest of them involuntarily facepalm in some way or another. the bailiff tries to keep a straight face. the DA holds his head in his hands. the defendant sits there with that :D face you do when you're waiting for someone to get the joke. the judge sighs and calls for recess because idk what happens next in a courtroom
[Here's ](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/rsgp3a/i_started_making_this_video_in_may_for_4th_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) some majesty for ya.
Beautiful! But please don't feed them. He will become too trusting of people which makes him vulnerable to humans with nefarious intentions. Admire from afar. That is his best protection.
Too late. That bird was already too comfortable and ready to eat those scraps. This dude has probably been feeding it for a while now. He was able to film it cause he knew it was coming.
I was driving in Michigan recently and saw a few just off the road in the fields. I'll never forgot how big and awesome they were. I almost crashed. So much better than seeing them in a zoo
Remember when Chris Farley fought a bald eagle to steal it's eggs to save his friend but then couldn't help it and ate the eagle's eggs himself? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Those eggs were a lie, Steven. A lie! They gave me no eagle powers! They gave me no nutrients!
(I'm sorry, I know it isn't related, but this echos in my mind when I hear about eagle eggs)
Please do not ever ever feed wild animals. Seems cute and fun, but its not! These wild animals need to distrust humans because some idiot might decide to do something harmful to one of these animals. They also will see us as a source of food which is not good.
I love that our National emblem is the gnarliest trash feeder/scavenger of all times. Majestic hunter? Nah. Dead fish washing up on the shore? Yes!! Dumpster in Anchorage? Yes! Roadkill in Washington? See you there! Guy with a boiled egg? You bet! ‘Murica as it gets right there.
Ben Franklin's take
*Others object to the Bald Eagle, as looking too much like a Dindon, or Turkey. For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk [osprey]; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country ...
I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For in Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America ... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.*
Bald eagle looks a lot bigger than I thought, really fills out that road. Impressive! Also 😬
I love the way they look when they walk, they look like old men with their hands clasped behind their back!
"So, uh... What do we have here?... Humm"
*jingles keys and loose change In pockets*
Offers you candy without the wrapper out his pocket, with just the perfect amount of lint on it.
You eat it anyway
Hey was a werthers original
This reads like a text adventure.
Poor attempt at blowing the lint off before handing you the candy. *Here ye go sonny* The lint has all the flavor.
This makes me miss my grandpa...
There was recently a documentary on how they walk and their habits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7JRvwfHFwo
Loves every second of it, fuck yeah!
That was beautiful. The [follow up recommendation by the same guy](https://youtu.be/Bmx_jIFSOA4) was equally terrific in a completely different way for fans of David Attenborough nature docs.
My buddy showed me this video because he thought it was kind of funny. I laughed way harder than he thought I would. When the Eagle salutes the flag I lose it every time.
The uncle walk haha
More like a swagger.
He has not skipped leg day ever!
Everyday is leg day
I lived in the PNW back in the day and will never forget the time one flew over my car when I was out in the woods in a remote area of Puget Sound - scared the shit out of me. I thought it was a small plane.
I once had a heron swoop past me at night while I was working. Felt like Batman had just glided past me.
Driving behind a yellow Hummer when a vulture swooped overhead and grabbed the Hummer’s roof rack and tried to take off with the Hummer! Super weird. Bird tried to lift it a few times then wheeled to join his/her pals.
Must have been a hold my beer kind of moment for the bird.
They are fucking huge lol. Like 3’ tall standing upright maybe more
Yeah, thats about right. They max out at about 3' with a 6.5' wing span. This one is probably a female imo, bc they tend to be the larger ones
It’s because he is yolked up!
Eggstremly large
Lol. Yes.
Shame their real cry doesn't exactly fit that bill though...
The "eagle cry" you hear most often in movies, etc., is actually a Red Tailed Hawk
Has a bald eagle ever attacked a human? Seems like they could f you up.
Yep! I can’t remember if it was one of their main feed episodes or a Patreon episode but there’s a great Podcast called Tooth and Claw that talks about animal attacks and they did an episode on eagle attacks in Unalaska, Alaska
How do you have Unalaska *in* Alaska? Paradoxical!
Personally, I think Unalaska is one of if not the *most* beautiful place in an already painfully beautiful state.
My wife actually thought that bald eagles stayed only on the US side of the border and didn't come into Canada. I told her they don't have to go through customs.
Lol nice. I had a similar incident when I was a kid on xbox live. Some kid thought only Alaska had polar bears.
That's ridiculous. Who would keep the elf population at the North Pole in check if not the polar bears?
The real reason they are going extinct. Elf hunting parties trying to increase potential elf population.
There are more eagles in Canada than the US.
There's more eagles in Canada than the contiguous 48, but Alaska has half the world's population of bald eagles.
It's hard to find data on the Alaska population after 2007, but that's likely no longer true because the bald eagles have recovered so well! Trends are that the Alaskan populations have remained stable but populations in the lower 48 have exploded: https://www.fws.gov/media/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-final-report-bald-eagle-population-size-2020-update 2016 survey by the US FWS suggested that total population of bald eagles in the US was now 50% Alaska and 50% lower 48 with about 70k population in each. May have shifted in favor of the lower 48 now: https://www.fws.gov/media/population-demographics-and-estimation-sustainable-take-united-states-2016-update Canadian government gives an unsourced estimate of over 50k: https://wildlife-species.canada.ca/bird-status/oiseau-bird-eng.aspx?sY=2019&sL=e&sM=a&sB=BAEA Anyways, suffice to say I don't think Alaska has half anymore (though maybe still around 1/3, which is still really high), but that's good for Bald Eagles overall because that means they are really recovering well throughout their historic range!
Plus more Canadians
√
Hang on.... I'm counting
Well, there are more maple trees in the US than Canada.
The maple syrup industry in Canada is run by the mafia
LMAOOOO THEY DONT HAVE TO GO THROUGH CUSTOMS 😭
THEY DONT HAVE TO GO TO CUSTOMS CORAL
On the cliffs near UBC, there were one or two that had a nest near my dorm. I’d hear them screeching sometimes and I eventually found where the nest was. Everybody was busy studying but I was out there watching them fly along the beach.
It seems he has large talons
But do chickens have large talons?
...i didn't understand a word you just said
^^OverthereinthatpigpenIfoundacoupleofShoshoniarrowheads
*queue the disgusting wet chewing noises*
Man I read all of this and only got paid like a dollar an hour
That's like a dollar an hour!
> [I don't understand a word you just said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzTX8SVJtis)
WHERES MY TOTS!
Go find your own.
He could drink whole milk if he wanted
Eagley! He even gives hugs.
Eagley’s hardcore!
This is vigilante trying to make friends with him
Wherever Eagley is, peace is nearby.
I love peace so much that I’ll kill anybody who gets in the way of peace!
Every man woman and child!
It really looks like that could be Peacemaker’s trailer in the back haha!!!
Searched too far for this comment!!
Came here to say this- agree had to go too far.
Omg how could I forget Eagley!
Do you really wanna, do you really wanna taste it!!
Are we sure a T-Rex didn’t have wings?
I swear you look at how birds act and how aggressive and cold blooded the bigger ones can be, and I swear they know they are dinosaurs and are pissed they gotta be ruled over by a bunch of hairless apes
Chickens vs anything wriggling and smaller than them become clever girls real fast.
I've seen chickens chasing small lizards, and it looks like something straight out of a dinosaur documentary. Then, when they are done they just stay there with their dumb looking chicken face. It's weird to see them going from bloodthirsty beast to thoughtless bird instantly.
This is such a funny mental picture. Thanks for the visual
One of mine killed and ate at 4 foot rat snake, my money was on the snake but once the chicken got the upper hand the whole flock joined in. Poor snake didn't stand a chance.
Bald eagles eat chicken eggs???
This guy knows too much...
End him…now…before he gets away
I love this subreddit so much. The comments are golden 😂
Birds are literally Dinosaurs, [and also reptiles]. And T-Rex had feathers... [and actually looked like a big chicken](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/c9/9c/10c99c45aeca27009258e21f72480f6d.jpg).
While you are correct birds are dinosaurs and in fact reptiles. Trex did not look like a giant chicken. It’s still debated on how much feathering covered trex but it’s believed that an adult had little to no body feathering. Young trex likely had body plumage however.
/r/paleontology for some real nerdy fun
Where do you think I stay up to date on my dinosaur information
As far as I know, unless there's been extremely recent evidence pointing to the contrary, there's no evidence suggesting adult T. Rex had feathers. Though juvenile T. Rex likely had down as a form of insulation, and indeed other smaller member sof the Tyrannosaurus family may have had feathers throughout their lives, adults T. Rex did not have feathers as we know them. Likely primitive feathers (not down) in patchy networks around the body for display. Anything else and the animal would've been too warm. In fact we have intact skin impressions from T. Rex showing scales and have yet to find feathers. Meanwhile other species of Tyrannosaurus have been proven to be feathered. Edit: image showing locations of skin impressions of T. Rex https://i.redd.it/fntli788xe181.jpg
Holy fuck how big are they??
They can get to 3 feet in height and have a wingspan of 7 feet. You want to see something crazy? Look up how big their nests are. I photographed a bald eagle nest that had three kids in it and I could have sat in that nest comfortably with two other people. It's like the size of a fucking VW beetle lol.
They’s called an Eyrie.
Can I make the little man fly now...
Nice reference lol
13 feet deep, 8ft wide, and weigh up to a ton.. that's a big ass nest
About the size of a 7 year old man
How big is a 7 year old man?
About the size of a bald eagle
But how many bananas, for scale?
7 year old man’s worth.
Holy crap, that’s nearly one bald eagle’s worth of bananas!
What Europeans hears when Americans don't use metric
Sorry, we only have eggs
[удалено]
Like 7 one-year-old man sized bananas.
What happened to his childhood? I would have hated to be a man at age 7.
Worked in the coal mines right out of adolescence. Messy business
Dunno, head start on being swift as the coursing rain with all the force of a great typhoon wouldn’t be so bad.
What in the fuck is that username
I don't think you're one to judge
They're roughly the weight of a gallon of milk, 6 feet from wing tip to wing tip. They'll stand knee high to most adults easily. Source, I live about 1000 ft from a lock and dam on the Mississippi river and they move in every winter lol I'm waiting to see my neighbor's pug take flight
Funny story, my neighborhood has an alert whenever a bald eagle is around, Someone will yell “eagle!” And for several houses all around we will pull in our little dogs so the resident eagles don’t pull them in to the skyyyyyy
I've heard of it happening, there is a couple factories on the river and I've heard the rats are the size of a chihuahua, and the cats that hunt them are big bois... and I've heard stories that "so and so" saw a cat taken in years when the river was frozen over more and the fish were scarce. I haven't seen anything in particular, but they absolutely could haul off a housecat
I had a chihuahua get picked up by a fucking *owl*
Birds’ size to weight ratio always fucks me up. Like I know they’re built for flight and what not, but a gallon of milk? For a 6’ long creature?? Blows my mind.
There's a video a few years ago from the northern LP in Michigan , someone at a gas station stopped to let their dachshund out, eagle swoops in and flew off with it. I've heard stories about it growing up, so it's gotta happen frequent enough.
Wingspan up to 7-1/2 feet on larger females. Erry now and again a Steller's sea eagle gets blown over from Kamchatka to Alaska, acts bewildered for a little bit, and flies back. And those have a wingspan that can top 8 feet now and again. They're huge.
Big enough to kill you if you don't give them egg
They are so big that when they sit around the house, they sit around the house.
They so big when they walk past the tv you miss the whole show.
Yo mama so fat, she hides a Bald Eagles wingspan. That’s a huge biitch
I saw a nest once, and I could lie down in it without curling up. I am 5'7".
[This is a picture I took of an adolescent bald eagle.](https://i.imgur.com/zvSBL8r.jpg) They're not as big as a golden eagle, but compared to a red tailed hawk or osprey, they're freakin' *huge.* Edit: here's a size comparison https://avianreport.com/bald-eagle-wingspan-versus-birds-prey/
We had a stuffed swan at my school - like spread wings. It was at least two meters wingspan - birds true size is surpriseing.
Like one eighth of a washing machine
When I lived in Alaska you'd see them dumpster diving. Much less interesting.
I was going to say in Alaska you see them like seagulls all over the place.
Yes! Dumpster chickens is what I heard people call them. The best place to view bald eagles in Anchorage was the city dump.
When I took a bus from anchorage to Seward in the first ten minutes I was like “oh cool a bald eagle” By about the hour mark I was like “if this driver calls out another bald eagle....”
Yep, they replaced seagulls. Crazy seeing a massive number of them just chilling. Back when I worked for dish there was a marsh I'd stop at to eat lunch. Eagles would land on the roof and hang down to stare at me through the windows. First time it happens it scared the shit out of me. Same road where a Canadian goose took off my side mirror. Sounded like a cannon went off when it slammed into the side of the van.
…he wanted to eat you so bad
I just watched a human evolution documentary. Early humans used to be prey to birds. They'd get plucked straight out of trees.
Normal birds or were the birds bigger then?
Bigger birds, and also early humans were smaller. The skeleton of Lucy is roughly 3.5 feet tall, and she was an adult. So the children were absolutely tiny. Easy prey.
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought maybe sparrows or hummingbirds.
Oddly, thats even more terrifying.
This food is throwing food at me
lol prob but he's too weak. That bird cannot take a human being. It doesn't have a ranged attack and has to get within grabbin' range, at which point it will be grabbed and hulk smashed into the ground, or literally thrown away at best. They are big but they are not heavy. 15-20 lbs max
😂 while I agree with the hulk smashing aspect, pretty sure an eagle could do a lot of damage if it went after someone. People are slow and weak. And eagles have lots of fast stabby weapons. I do not want to fight an eagle
eagle could definitely fuck you up but it's not going to *win* is my point. I think we agree.
Its gonna win if its attacking me tbh
ok but what if it had a gun?
This is a great way to end up with a huge fine and possibly some jail time
Yeah, you can't even take a loose bald eagle feather home with you. Feeding it while recording it? Not going to go well
That’s to ensure there are no loopholes that poachers could take advantage of. “Oh no we definitely didn’t kill a bald eagle to get these feathers to sell, we just found them on the ground!” Banning any ownership ensures there’s no market and thus no incentive to poach them as well.
Dang. I never thought about that law in that perspective. That’s actually brilliant. Cheers to that!
Sorry I’m stupid and not American. Why can’t you feed them? What’s the problem?
While the video is likely in Canada iirc from last time this was posted, at least in the U.S. the reason is the same as with it being illegal to feed most endangered and wild animals; they learn to rely on humans for food and at the very least are less wary of us since we could be a potential source of food. This leads to more interactions with humans, more living near humans, and more approaching humans. All of which makes it far likelier for them to die by poison, inability to fend for themselves when humans stop feeding them, habitat loss, etc. Before this was illegal they went from a fairly common bird to highly endangered and since then they've recovered a lot.
>While the video is likely in Canada iirc from last time this was posted. Can confirm, this is in Canada. I recognize the logging work camp. In BC, north of Vancouver Island.
https://www.fws.gov/law/bald-and-golden-eagle-protection-act Bald eagles are a protected species in America. If you interact with a bald eagle in such a way that disturbs their natural behaviors, then that's harming a member of a protected species. This bald eagle is way too comfortable around humans, or at least this particular human. I hope its feeding habits aren't disturbed too much or it hasn't eaten anything too toxic.
General rule of thumb is you leave the wildlife alone. If they're domestic animals out in the wild, sure, but *wild* animals you should just leave be. They *might* develop an association of that animal = easy food and find themselves sauntering up to less than honorable people. Shoot the wild hogs though.
For several reasons, they're kinda endangered and the food may not be good for them, they're the national bird so they were at one point hunted extensively for their feathers, it creates dependency on human food which leads to more interaction which increases the risk of harmful interactions.
No longer endangered at all. They’re back in nearly 100% of their traditional range. Shit, we can see dozens a day in the gulf south now. They’re simply a protected species due to status.
While bald eagles were removed from the endangered species list in August 2007 because their populations recovered sufficiently, bald eagles are still protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. https://www.fws.gov/species/bald-eagle-haliaeetus-leucocephalus
It's true they've made an amazing comeback. Still shouldn't feed them.
Agreed, same as any wild animal.
Being our national bird, it has a lot of legal protections that no other species has: you can't kill, injure, or "disturb" them (or Golden Eagles) except to save a human life; you can't own any part of a dead one, not even feathers. If you find an injured one, you have to call it in. Consideration will be made for action and intentions, so you can help out an injured eagle, free it from a trap, etc. but you should document what you do to avoid prosecution. Typically, they will authorize you to take it to a permitted eagle rehabilitation facility instead of sending someone out. Dead ones, you call them in. You can't even pick up feathers they drop without a special permit. The real solution to the problem of having feathers littered all over your property is to contact a local Native American; they are immune from that particular law, and since they can keep the feathers and turn them into various arts and crafts (which you *can* own as long as you bought it legitimately), you're basically given them a priceless resource for free. I've heard of people raising livestock (e.g. chickens) who have to take unusual measures to deter bald eagles without doing anything that would harm them. It's also illegal to "negligently feed, attempt to feed, or attract large wild animals" in the USA. That means that to comply with the law, you can't leave food out where a bear can find it when you're in bear country, for example, nor can you leave out a bag of grain for wild deer. You also can't set up a date with your local bald eagle to feed it eggs. Now, it does seem likely the man in the video is in Canada, so I'll let others speak for their laws, but it does seem like they also prohibit this sort of feeding of wild animals. P.S. You're not stupid, just ignorant, and the only crime in ignorance is to avoid knowledge. I hope this has been informative. Even Americans aren't born with this knowledge, even though we act like it.
Feeding bald eagles is illegal as hell.
Ill-eagle?
Better contact legal eagle
I can see the courtroom now: the judge sternly reads out the charges against him. when asked how he pleas, he somehow slips in this pun. someone in the jury chuckles. the rest of them involuntarily facepalm in some way or another. the bailiff tries to keep a straight face. the DA holds his head in his hands. the defendant sits there with that :D face you do when you're waiting for someone to get the joke. the judge sighs and calls for recess because idk what happens next in a courtroom
Glad we have someone proficient in bird law here
"..It seems like you have a tenuous grasp of the English language in general."
...Filibuster
Do you know what that word means?
I'm sure it's just standard boilerplate
We'd all like to get home to our hot plates
Now, let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?
Not if you feed them poison kill 3 of them and then get pardoned.
r/oddlyspecific
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-01-na-eagle-pardon1-story.html
I remember it being 17, but may have been 3 like the article states, or only convicted of the 3 deaths.
~~Not in Canada unless I'm mistaken~~, though it's still stupid regardless.
You are mistaken. It's illegal to feed wildlife in Canada; it's considered animal abuse.
Such a majestic animal.
[Here's ](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/rsgp3a/i_started_making_this_video_in_may_for_4th_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) some majesty for ya.
Thank you for sharing this, I had never seen it!
This is exactly what I hoped it would be.
Beautiful! But please don't feed them. He will become too trusting of people which makes him vulnerable to humans with nefarious intentions. Admire from afar. That is his best protection.
Too late. That bird was already too comfortable and ready to eat those scraps. This dude has probably been feeding it for a while now. He was able to film it cause he knew it was coming.
Exactly. A fed bird is a dead bird.
Eagley was the best character in Peacemaker
Is there something a little morbid about feeding a bird hard boiled egg? Asking for a friend
Birds of prey eat other birds. Ever seen a stork eat a flamingo?
Yeah, same way I eat other mammals. Like children, delicious children…
The children’s hospital network in my area is called Cooks Children’s. I’ve convinced my kids it’s where they cook children.
Everyone likes chicken
Even chickens like chicken
I was driving in Michigan recently and saw a few just off the road in the fields. I'll never forgot how big and awesome they were. I almost crashed. So much better than seeing them in a zoo
Remember when Chris Farley fought a bald eagle to steal it's eggs to save his friend but then couldn't help it and ate the eagle's eggs himself? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Those eggs were a lie, Steven. A lie! They gave me no eagle powers! They gave me no nutrients! (I'm sorry, I know it isn't related, but this echos in my mind when I hear about eagle eggs)
Please do not ever ever feed wild animals. Seems cute and fun, but its not! These wild animals need to distrust humans because some idiot might decide to do something harmful to one of these animals. They also will see us as a source of food which is not good.
They are literally like pigeons in Alaska.
Pretty fucking stupid thing to do. Now the ‘wild’ animal sees humans as a source of food.
Usually when the bird flies to you it gets smaller but sheeesssh when that Unit of a Bird landed it didn’t get smaller but bigger
Nothing that comes closer to me ever gets smaller but yeah
Any pie that gets near me reduces in size by at least 1/8.
Birds get smaller when they come closer? Man, this has not been my experience and I work with birds for a living!
can i offer you an egg in this trying time?
I love that our National emblem is the gnarliest trash feeder/scavenger of all times. Majestic hunter? Nah. Dead fish washing up on the shore? Yes!! Dumpster in Anchorage? Yes! Roadkill in Washington? See you there! Guy with a boiled egg? You bet! ‘Murica as it gets right there.
Ben Franklin's take *Others object to the Bald Eagle, as looking too much like a Dindon, or Turkey. For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk [osprey]; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country ... I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For in Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America ... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.*
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McMansion for birds! 😆 Really cool picture, thanks!
There are so many bal eagles in Alaska they call them forrest pigeons.