Comments - Unbelievable Footage of an Eagle Grabbing its Huge Prey
category: Cool | views: 140780 | posted on: 11/19/2007
Next time you're strolling through the wilderness with your girlfriend, you might wanna strap her down if she weighs under 110.
HB Red Eye [ban] | Apr 21 08 : 10:51am
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That's one strong, hungry bird.
bong toking alcoholic [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 4:38am
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damn! i want one of them fuckers for thanks giving. imagine how much muscle is on that drumstick! ps. i know the eagle is our national mascot, so no bashing please. just a frikin joke. 
Laughing Gravy [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 4:54am
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I hope an eagle never takes a shit on me. Pigeons are bad enough. 
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I believe this bird beast to be a white bellied sea eagle, check out a close up @ http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/rogerdeng/166357434/ or http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/ezee123/163164538/
The sea-eagles are a group of birds of prey in the genus Haliaeetus in the bird of prey family Accipitridae.
Sea-eagles vary in size, from the Sanford's Fish-eagle averaging 2–2.7 kg to the huge Steller's Sea-eagle weighing up to 9 kg. At up to 6.9 kg, the White-tailed Eagle is the largest eagle in Europe. Bald Eagles can weigh up to 6.3 kg, making them the second largest eagle native to North America. The White-bellied Sea-eagle can weigh up to 3.4 kg.
There are eight living species:
White-bellied Sea-eagle (H. leucogaster)
Sanford's Sea-eagle (H. sanfordi)
African Fish-eagle (H. vocifer)
Madagascar Fish-eagle (H. vociferoides)
Pallas's Fish-eagle (H. leucoryphus)
White-tailed Eagle (H. albicilla)
Bald Eagle (H. leucocephalus)
Steller's Sea-eagle (H. pelagicus)
Three obvious species pairs exist; White-tailed and Bald Eagles, Sanford's and White-bellied Sea-eagle, and the African and Madagascar Fish-eagles. Each of these consists of a white- and a tan-headed species, and the tails are entirely white in all adult Haliaeetus except Sanford's, White-bellied, and Pallas's.
Haliaeetus is possibly one of the oldest genera of living birds. A distal left tarsometatarsus (DPC 1652) recovered from early Oligocene deposits of Fayyum, Euzbakistan (Jebel Qatrani Formation, c.33 mya) is similar in general pattern and some details to that of a modern sea-eagle. The genus was present in the middle Miocene (12-16 mya) with certainty.
Their closest relatives are the fishing-eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga, very similar to the tropical Haliaeetus species. The relationships to other genera in the family are less clear; they have long been considered closer to the genus Milvus (kites) than to the true eagles in the genus Aquila on the basis of their morphology and display behaviour, more recent genetic evidence agrees with this, but points to them being related to the genus Buteo (buzzards) as well, a relationship not previously thought close.
The origin of the sea-eagles and fishing-eagles is probably in the general area of the Bay of Bengal. During the Eocene/Oligocene, as the Indian subcontinent slowly collided with Eurasia, this was a vast expanse of fairly shallow ocean; the initial sea-eagle divergence seems to have resulted in the four tropical (and Southern Hemisphere subtropical) species found around the Indian Ocean today. The Central Asian Pallas's Sea-eagle's relationships to the other taxa is more obscure; it seems closer to the three Holarctic species which evolved later and may be an early offshoot of this northward expansion; it does not have the hefty yellow bill of the northern forms, retaining a smaller darker beak like the tropical species.
The rate of molecular evolution in Haliaeetus is fairly slow, as is to be expected in long-lived birds which take years to successfully reproduce. In the mtDNA cytochrome b gene, a mutation rate of 0.5-0.7% per million years (if assuming an Early Miocene divergence) or maybe as little as 0.25-0.3% per million years (for a Late Eocene divergence) has been shown.
A 2005 molecular study showed the genus is paraphyletic and subsumes Ichthyophaga; the species diverging into a temperate and tropical group.
Which species do you think this beast is? Bird species are best identified by their faeces. And on that note.....
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Killerdude [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 6:57am
He was just trying to impress a female
YEa lookat my meat its huge
kiddcorrona [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 7:57am
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wow that was kool,he should have dropped him and then enjoyed a feast of flat sheep
Stra2caster [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 8:02am
ok, Maybe that bird CAN grab a small dog like that one (a fox maybe???) but like hell it can actually eat it, if anything it would just piss off the dog/fox/small cow and get hurt. Awesome video none the less.
evillizardeye [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 8:23am
that pray looked like he waz enjoying the ride.......weeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee
Shepsypooh [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 8:58am
Omg, poor goat, this video is by far the most barbaric video on this site for a long time
Mossberg 500 [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 9:31am
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Omg, poor goat, this video is by far the most barbaric video on this site for a long time
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I believe this bird beast to be a white bellied sea eagle, check out a close up @ http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/rogerdeng/166357434/ or http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/ezee123/163164538/
The sea-eagles are a group of birds of prey in the genus Haliaeetus in the bird of prey family Accipitridae.
Sea-eagles vary in size, from the Sanford's Fish-eagle averaging 2–2.7 kg to the huge Steller's Sea-eagle weighing up to 9 kg. At up to 6.9 kg, the White-tailed Eagle is the largest eagle in Europe. Bald Eagles can weigh up to 6.3 kg, making them the second largest eagle native to North America. The White-bellied Sea-eagle can weigh up to 3.4 kg.
There are eight living species:
White-bellied Sea-eagle (H. leucogaster)
Sanford's Sea-eagle (H. sanfordi)
African Fish-eagle (H. vocifer)
Madagascar Fish-eagle (H. vociferoides)
Pallas's Fish-eagle (H. leucoryphus)
White-tailed Eagle (H. albicilla)
Bald Eagle (H. leucocephalus)
Steller's Sea-eagle (H. pelagicus)
Three obvious species pairs exist; White-tailed and Bald Eagles, Sanford's and White-bellied Sea-eagle, and the African and Madagascar Fish-eagles. Each of these consists of a white- and a tan-headed species, and the tails are entirely white in all adult Haliaeetus except Sanford's, White-bellied, and Pallas's.
Haliaeetus is possibly one of the oldest genera of living birds. A distal left tarsometatarsus (DPC 1652) recovered from early Oligocene deposits of Fayyum, Euzbakistan (Jebel Qatrani Formation, c.33 mya) is similar in general pattern and some details to that of a modern sea-eagle. The genus was present in the middle Miocene (12-16 mya) with certainty.
Their closest relatives are the fishing-eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga, very similar to the tropical Haliaeetus species. The relationships to other genera in the family are less clear; they have long been considered closer to the genus Milvus (kites) than to the true eagles in the genus Aquila on the basis of their morphology and display behaviour, more recent genetic evidence agrees with this, but points to them being related to the genus Buteo (buzzards) as well, a relationship not previously thought close.
The origin of the sea-eagles and fishing-eagles is probably in the general area of the Bay of Bengal. During the Eocene/Oligocene, as the Indian subcontinent slowly collided with Eurasia, this was a vast expanse of fairly shallow ocean; the initial sea-eagle divergence seems to have resulted in the four tropical (and Southern Hemisphere subtropical) species found around the Indian Ocean today. The Central Asian Pallas's Sea-eagle's relationships to the other taxa is more obscure; it seems closer to the three Holarctic species which evolved later and may be an early offshoot of this northward expansion; it does not have the hefty yellow bill of the northern forms, retaining a smaller darker beak like the tropical species.
The rate of molecular evolution in Haliaeetus is fairly slow, as is to be expected in long-lived birds which take years to successfully reproduce. In the mtDNA cytochrome b gene, a mutation rate of 0.5-0.7% per million years (if assuming an Early Miocene divergence) or maybe as little as 0.25-0.3% per million years (for a Late Eocene divergence) has been shown.
A 2005 molecular study showed the genus is paraphyletic and subsumes Ichthyophaga; the species diverging into a temperate and tropical group.
Which species do you think this beast is? Bird species are best identified by their faeces. And on that note.....
Fearthereaper [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 9:36am
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I hate birds. We should kill em all and eat them. Fried chicken anyone?
kiddcorrona [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 11:50am
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wouldnt do me anygood as my g/f wouldnt shut up long enough for the bird to grab her
lookmomimdead [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 12:40pm
+1
i love my wife too much for her to get hurt gaggg me fur sure
bong toking alcoholic [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 1:04pm
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Note to self; take wife rock climbing
I am Varholy [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 2:25pm
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I wonder if footage like this inspired the legends of the "Thunderbirds" ....not the cars mind you, rather massive birds that were reported to have been able to easily hoist children and adults away in one talon.
Also I'm thinking this could be a basis for the mythical Roc, which was supposed to have been able to carry elephants away in its talons
tobyspeeks [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 4:38pm
@Videowatcher - I agree, I'd like to know where the clip came from? There are way too many camera angles, the audio is too precise. The area is too remote to have captured everything seen just by chance.
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cyrilthemonkey [ban] | Nov 19 07 : 4:04am
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i wondered where my dog went